Gravity- Weird or what?

[Zevon]

Does anyopne else find gravity starnge, a force rthat only depends on mass and doesn't require any energy or work to be done, never runs out or diminishes for a given object and has an infinite range.

Also the boson has never been found and what would it be like? The strong and weak interactions have ordinary particles with all the usual characteristics, electrostatic uses photons that transmit energy but have no mass and have a theoretically infinite range. But a force that only depends on mass and doesn't diminish mass must surely have no mass and noi charge as even neutral objects exert gravity, the boson would be pretty strange. Hence why we haven't found it yet.

Still, pretty weird force. Isn't it?

P.S. I know lots have questions have been asked about what gravity is and how it works in plain english, this is more of an advanced discussion for those who already know or are interested in soemthing a bit beyond plain english. There is no right or wrong, just weird or creepy

[shammydodger]

It is dependent on distance, too. Yes, I do think it weird; but I think many things in physics are weird, which probably goes a long way toward explaining why I was distinctly average at it in school!

[fo3nix]

It is indeed weird yea. The graviton is thought to be spin-2.

The main problem with gravity is that it's presently best described with GR, which uses a Riemannian description of spacetime. This isn't a quantum description though.

By the way, ever thought about the weak bosons? All particles can feel the weak force, and they all carry a sort of 'weak charge', or whatever you want to call it. It has no classic analogy really.