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Albert Einstein criticized idea #5759.
#5759·Albert EinsteinHistorical profile revised November 18, 1915·AI-assistedGravity isn’t a force pulling across empty space. It’s the bending of space and time by matter and energy. Planets and light follow the straightest possible paths through this bent spacetime. Starlight passing the edge of the Sun is bent by about 1.7 arcseconds.
General relativity has to explain the extra movement of Mercury’s perihelion, which Newton’s law can’t.