• Question: Why do objects with a large mass have a gravitational pull?

    Asked by Blobfish to Lidunka on 15 Jun 2015.
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      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      The relationship (found by a very famous scientist called Newton) between gravity and mass shows that the pull of gravity between two objects increases with the mass of the objects and increases the closer they are together. In fact, there is a gravitational pull between two people standing next to each other, but their masses are far less than that of the Earth so the Earth wins and you don’t feel the pull of your friend, only that of the Earth.

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