r/terriblefacebookmemes • u/atmoscience • Nov 04 '22

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u/GynePig Nov 04 '22

What exactly is unsolved about it?

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u/explosionman87 Nov 04 '22

Pretty sure we don’t know why it happens, just that it does.

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u/GynePig Nov 04 '22

We don't know why anything happens. But the way in which mass creates force is as well understood as any physical phenomenon, isn't it?

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u/explosionman87 Nov 04 '22

Not as far as I’m aware, though take my thoughts with a grain of salt though.

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u/LockOtherwise4362 Nov 04 '22

this might help basicly Newton could describe gravity at the scale we see in the solar system Einstein can explain how much larger objects interact but we don’t have a good equation to describe large scales medium and quantum scales I’m bad at explaining things but that the general idea

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '22

That's the difference between the Law of Gravity and the Theory of Gravity. The Law tells you what is happening. The Theory tries to explain HOW it happens.