Someone please tell me why gravity and magnetism can't be the same force..?

Question

I think magnetism is just "focused" gravity which results from the unique molecular structure of magnets.

Answer 1

Instead of thing of gravity as a force, think of it as a distortion of space around a mass. The distortion of that space causing smaller objects to spiral towards it.

You argue that magnetism as being focused gravity, but as there is not yet any distortion of space detected around the magnet we can no more assume it is than it isn't. If it were, why are some particles not influenced by the magnetic field.

Answer 2

Well actually nobody knows what either gravity or magnetism are so you might be right.

However even though we don't know what they are we know a great deal about how they act and gravity and magnetism do not act at all the same. Magnetism for instance can act both as an attraction or as a repulsion, whereas gravity always acts as an attractive force. Magnetism acts on charged particles and also moving charged particles create magnetic forces. Gravity on the other hand seems to pay no attention to electric charge and acts the same on both charged and neutral particles. Also there is no way to generate a gravitational field except by congregation of mass. Finally there is the fact that magnetism is vastly more powerful than gravity. It is hard to understand exactly how much stronger but the difference is truly huge.

So based on the way the two forces behave I would have to conclude that they are probably not the same force.

Answer 3

Yes, the other guy has it right. Everything is subject to gravity but we don't notice it most of the time because the earth is the object with the most mass in the vicinity.

There is positive and negative magnetism which I think is the attraction or rejection of particles (isn't it electrons or something?) in metal I think. I was never a scientist but certain things kind of interested me. I'm sure another person knows more than I do!

Answer 4

There is still a lot that we don't know about gravity and magnetism. But we do know what the force carrying particle for magnetic attraction is the photon (electro-magnetic radiation). The force carrying particle for gravity has been proposed as the graviton, but there is still a lot of uncertainty. I would like to think that all forces are derived by a single more simple force.

Answer 5

Gravity hasn't officially been completely explained yet. Magnetism has. Magnetism is the electrons lining up and affecting the other charges around them. Gravity is the effect on physical existence due to the dances between orbits, revolutions around the Sun, galaxies, and larger space.

Answer 6

Gravity doesn't have poles like magnetism does.

Magnetism only attracted other magnetic materials. Gravity attracts everything.

Gravity is the result of deformed time and space due to mass. The same way a heavy object deforms a mattress and things are attracted to it. The mattress is the dimension of space/time.

Answer 7

Not really... Consider this, you are affected by gravity but you are not pulled by a magnet. Gravity is based on attractive force produced by relative masses while magnetism is a force based on polarity of objects opposite attract while the same repulse. More info below...

Answer 8

Because magnetism and electricity are the same force (they both are "electro-magnetic" waves. There are four fundamental interactions in the 'Standard Model' of physics. Gravity is the odd one out as the other three interactions (electromagnetic, strong and weak nuclear forces) become the same thing mathematically in specific circumstances

Answer 9

lower than our general circumstances, magnetism and gravity are autonomous forces. even if, if all of us ever comes up with a strong "Grand Unification theory", magnetism (electomagnetic forces), nuclear forces, and gravity will be deiived from one pressure. If that is finished, that pressure existed for lower than a little while after the tremendous bang, an is of acedemic interest purely. it isn't authentic that gravity does not exist as a pressure. in accordance to the final theory, gravity arises from the distortion of spacetime round thousands. The pressure of gravity effects even as products are compelled to adhere to "non-geodesic" (not shortest-period) paths in spacetime. on the exterior of the earth, one geodesic direction is an merchandise accelerating in the direction of the middle of earth at price g. purely when we attempt to quit it (like even as the floor receives interior the way) can we sense the pressure that we call gravity.

Answer 10

According to certain theories of the universe (Grand Unification) all forces are different aspects of the same primordial force. There are four basic forces in nature: gravity, electromagnetic, strong nuclear and weak nuclear. When conditions near the "big bang" are analyzed these forces "unify". The unification of the electomagnetic force and weak nuclear force has been shown theoretically, the combined force being called "electroweak". Some physycists expect that all four forces will eventually be unified. So if that turns out to be true, the answer to your question would be "yes, they could).