How does gravity physically work on an atomic level?

Question

Im realy curious to how a gravitational feild actually works on an atomic level, i dont want an explenation on what it is and what it does. I want a complete explenation to what is physically happening and why. Has it got anything to do with frequency waves? Thanks

Answer 1

Gravitation has no perceptible grain nor is it detectably quantized. Gravitation makes no difference in atom-scale physics : 4x10^36 times weaker than electromagnetism.

The simplest predictive 100% validated model of gravitation is ten simultaneous elliptic-hyperbolic differential equations,

Annalen der Physik 4 XLIX 769-822 (1916)

Answer 2

Your question contains a logical contradiction and cannot be answered.

You want two mutually exclusive things:

* how does gravity physically work
* you don't want an explanation of what it is and what it does.

There is no physical description that includes anything except what it is and what it does.

All physical 'theories' are fundamentally just a combination of these two things:
* descriptive - what the thing is. a description based on observation and (usually) an underlying mathematical framework for the description

* predictive - what it does. a set of predictions about how the system will behave under given conditions: this is usually provided by the mathematical framework that provides the descriptive aspect too.

If you think there is more to a physical theory than just these two things then I'm afraid you are misunderstanding science. You probably need to start studying either metaphysics or theology to get the kind of answers you are looking for,

Answer 3

The answer to your question is that nobody really knows. Many scientists theorize that it involves the exchange of a particle called a graviton, just as the electromagnetic force involves an exchange of photons and the strong force an exchange of gluons. However, the graviton has never actually been observed.

Or if we look at the question in terms of general relativity, we can see gravity as hardly a force at all but simply as the effect of a curvature in spacetime.

The standard model (first paragraph) and general relativity (second par.) are, in fact, incompatible theories. There is evidence for both, but they can't both be true. The short answer to your question is, as I said, that nobody really knows.

I recommend the book listed below for further detail; I read it last summer. It is written in layman's terms but at the same time is very specific. Note: I am not selling this book.

Answer 4

Gravity is far too weak to work on an atomic level. It has nothing to do with electromagnetic waves. We know what it does on the familiar and relativistic scales. We haven't been able to detect any quantum behavior. But we don't know what it is or why it happens. The general relativity description as curvature of spacetime in the presence of matter still doesn't explain why it happens.

Answer 5

No one is exactly sure what the elementary particle of gravity is. Many people believe it is the gravitron, but it has never been seen or proven. There is some evidence to support this though.

Answer 6

10 points on the crackpot index, rule 17