What causes Gravity?

[circa 1991]

Question: What causes gravity?  I know about Universal Gravitation, but 
what, other than a formula, really makes two things attract each other?
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Your question is very profound.  We simply do not know the cause.  
What we know is that the Gravitational constant G that appears in the 
gravitational force equation is fundamental.  We have no theory that gives us 
its value.  Aside from the actual size of the gravitational forces, the fact 
that a mass distorts the space around itself by producing a field at points 
distant from it is one of most profound assumptions of modern science.  The 
electric and magnetic fields are the other familiar fields.  With these we 
have detected the quanta of radiation and have measured their propagation in 
space.  We have not yet detected the graviton for gravity, so we do not yet 
know how it is propagated in detail.  We know in some detail how gravity 
works, but we do not have a clue about what causes it.  For that we would need 
some theory that would predict at least the value of G.

Sam Bowen
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