Did "gravity" exist before Einstein?

Answer 1

Gravity has existed since an instant after the Big Bang. However, the concept of gravity was not well understood until Sir Isaac Newton theorized the inverse square law that governs the force due to gravity.

Answer 2

Yes it did and always will. According to the general theory of relativity, gravity is a consequence of matter distorting space for all objects. So in a nutshell, as long as objects exist which are comprised of matter, gravity will exist.

If you are curious about theories of gravity before Einstein, you should look into Newton's law of universal gravitation. It was the predecessor to Einstein's theory and is accurate to a smaller degree than Einstein's theory.

Before Newton, Aristotle believed that objects had a proper place in the heavens and would seek out that place. He also observed that bodies fall towards the center of the Earth in proportion to their weight.

Answer 3

What a question! I think that Newton was hit on the head by an apple and figured it out! Einstein, in his General Theory of Relativity tried to explain just WHY gravity exists and how it performs the way that it does-!

Answer 4

Yes, but not after. After Einstein it is the result of a massive body's curving or warping spacetime around that body. See, people will say the earth orbits around the sun in an ellipse because of the sun's gravity. And, this is correct, but not totally precise. See all objects in motion stay in motion [in a stright line] unless acted upon by some external force. That's all Newton. Gravity is the term used to describe that force. Precisely what is happening is that the earth is moving in a straight line along the curved spacetime around the sun. The curvature itslef "forces" the earth to go around the Sun gravity well and not off into space.

Answer 5

Not only has gravity always existed, but we knew about before Einstein. It was Isaac Newton who first identified it. Even though it wasn't identified until that point, people were affected by its pull. Gravity wouldn't simply not exist until someone wrote about its effects. Just because Oxygen hadn't been identified didn't mean that people couldn't breathe until Lavosier.

Answer 6

No, we were all floating around before Einstein invented the gravity. Just apples did fall from trees, that was Newtons contribution. Before Galileo even the planets did what they want!

You're not asking that seriously?

Answer 7

LOL,,, take a deep breath.

Al didn't discover that gravity existed, but he may have interpreted it and it's effects.

Assume for a moment that he lived rather recently, in the grand scheme of things. Then assume,,, is it likely that before Al, everything just floated?

No real offense, but it feels to me like you might ask this in a METAphysical category.

Rev. Steven

Answer 8

gravity has always been there but not understood by the people living at those periods in a scientific manner, even before the periods of indus valley civilization the equipments made by people to do various functional operations for a variety of reasons like the pulley blocks they had used for fetching water from deep wells ,and a number of apparatus they were using right in olden days but without much literatures and was followed only by word of mouth.

Answer 9

Gravity was there even before big bang. It is one of the fundamental property of mass.
Einstein has nothing to do with gravity. Newton first realized the gravity.

Answer 10

Gravity concept exists after its discovery, but the phenomenon exists before its discovery. The concept will be extinct when there will be a new explanation to the phenomenon. Which will come in near future.