2007-10-11 20:17:03 · 11 answers · asked by Aya 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There IS gravity in space. Gravity is everywhere permeating everything. It doesn´t really end anywhere. This is because of the inverse square law and the nature of gravity. If you double the distance to a gravitywell, like earth, the force of gravity will decrease by the inverse square of the distance. So it will be a quarter. But it doesn´t matter how much distance you put in, gravity will always have some value. The inverse square of something will always BE something. Of course the farther you go in space the closer you get to another gravity well that is more powerful than the gravity earth will excert at that distance but the point is: gravity is everywhere.
Consider what the universe would look like if there wasn´t gravity...
2007-10-11 20:28:29 · answer #1 · answered by DrAnders_pHd 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Gravity IS there in space. Gravity is associated with every heavenly body. Since is inversely proportional to the square of the intervening distance, it is very feeble at places. There are some bodies in space whose gravity prevents even light from escaping!
2007-10-11 22:26:01 · answer #2 · answered by Pandian p.c. 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In answering your question you must must confuse gravity and space as being one, but consider them as being totally different entities. When you have done this, you can relate to gravity as being a separate force which is created by the direct action of space on a object. But to get back to your question, wherever you have matter & space you will have a resulting gravitational force !
2007-10-11 21:44:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
everything would be falling towards the direction of the pull.
actually, there is gravity in space, and that's what things in space do, they are in constant free fall under the influence of gravity.
2007-10-11 20:24:25 · answer #4 · answered by ivan k 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
gravity is everywhere. if there is matter there is gravity. and even though uve been taught space is a vacuum its not truly. theres some gasses, so theres gravity. and theres the moon, all the planets, all those have gravity.
2007-10-12 01:01:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There -is- gravity in space. Space is filled with gravitational attraction that exists between -all- masses.
Doug
2007-10-11 21:01:04 · answer #6 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There already is gravity in space.
2007-10-11 20:22:01 · answer #7 · answered by yutgoyun 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
since there IS gravity, the last poster got the answer to your question right..... nothing would be different than the way it is right now....it works pretty darned good, don't it?.....gravity's a whiz at keeping our Universe in line!!!...
2007-10-12 02:06:29 · answer #8 · answered by meanolmaw 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As you have already been advised, there is graity in area, for particular. we are in a position to word its outcomes over ermarkably large distances. particular, planets and different products are held in orbit by potential of gravitational charm. particular, the sunlight is held in its orbit around the galactic centre (interior the path of the constellation Sagittarius) by potential of tgravitational charm. yet there remains extra. Galaxies like the Magellanic Clouds, and the large Andromeda Galaxy are held interior an identical cluster as a results of fact the Milky way by potential of gravitational charm. And previous galaxy clusters like ours there are great-clusters, additionally gravitationally certain. i'm uncertain all and diverse has defined to you why you theory there wasn't gravity in area. i think of you have in techniques reviews which incorporate those astronauts have in area automobiles, the place they seem to be floating freely around the motor vehicle. the reality of the project is that the two he astronaut and the motor vehicle are gravitationally certain. Eery unmarried one, different than the Apollo moon automobiles, became gravitationally sure to an orbit around the earth. The Apollos have been the two in orbit around the earth, ir orbit around the moon, or in orbit around the sunlight between one and the different. So why does gravity seem to not practice to them? as a results of fact astronaut and motor vehicle are in in fact an identical orbit. they're orbiting the earth in parallel, and the version between the orbit of the astronaut and that of the motor vehicle is so small we don't many times word it. For a huge motor vehicle, although, like the ISS (area station) there could be a distinction. many of the motor vehicle would be slightly (some metres) closer to the earth than different areas, and so will 'choose' to orbit slightly swifter. as a results of fact the motor vehicle interior of reason inflexible, those multiple areas all could orbit mutually, in spite of the shown fact that it places some rigidity on the remotest areas of it. That effect we call 'microgravity'. perhaps not the terrific call, yet 'microdifferenceingravity' could be cumbersome.
2016-10-22 03:03:47 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exactly what is happening right now.
2007-10-12 01:38:45 · answer #10 · answered by Eratosthenes 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋