General Relativity
Einstein spent 10 years trying to include acceleration in the theory and published his theory of general relativity in 1915. In it, he determined that massive objects cause a distortion in space-time, which is felt as gravity.
Sir Isaac Newton quantified the gravity between two objects when he formulated his three laws of motion.
The force tugging between two bodies depends on how massive each one is and how far apart the two lie. Even as the center of the Earth is pulling you toward it (keeping you firmly lodged on the ground), your center of mass is pulling back at the Earth.
But the more massive body barely feels the tug from you, while with your much smaller mass you find yourself firmly rooted thanks to that same force.
Yet Newton's laws assume that gravity is an innate force of an object that can act over a distance.
Sir Isaac Newton quantified the gravity between two objects when he formulated his three laws of motion.
The force tugging between two bodies depends on how massive each one is and how far apart the two lie. Even as the center of the Earth is pulling you toward it (keeping you firmly lodged on the ground), your center of mass is pulling back at the Earth.
But the more massive body barely feels the tug from you, while with your much smaller mass you find yourself firmly rooted thanks to that same force.
Yet Newton's laws assume that gravity is an innate force of an object that can act over a distance.
Einstein realized that massive objects caused a distortion in space-time.
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