Are there particles that are so small that they
are not affected by gravity?
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Question Date: 2005-05-13 |
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Answer 1:
Anything that has mass is affected by gravity. I don't know of any particles that are so small that they can not be affected by gravity.
If you have any two bodies with mass there will be a gravitational attraction between them. So if you were holding, say, two pencils those two pencils would have a gravitational force. The reason that you do not notice this is because the earth is so massive that everything on earth (no where near as massive) feels the gravitation from the earth. This is also the reason that Earth has more gravity than the moon --the earth is more massive than the moon. |
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Answer 2:
I believe that our current understanding of
Einstein's relativity is that all particles are
affected by gravity. In the theory, since the
presence of matter warps space and time, any
particle traveling through space is affected
whether it is large or small and whether it has
mass or does not. |
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Answer 3:
Gravity affects everything equally according to
its mass. Therefore, no: a small particle
experiences less force, but it needs less force to
move it around. |
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Answer 4:
All particles that have mass are affected by
gravity. But for many small particles (called
Brownian particles) gravity is relatively
unimportant and other effects, such as those
related to temperature, push the particles around
in such a way that gravity seems not to affect them. Click Here to return to the search form.
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