{"id":191141,"date":"2024-06-13T10:22:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/wild-new-study-suggests-gravity-can-exist-without-mass"},"modified":"2024-06-13T10:22:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T15:22:34","slug":"wild-new-study-suggests-gravity-can-exist-without-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/wild-new-study-suggests-gravity-can-exist-without-mass","title":{"rendered":"Wild New Study Suggests Gravity Can Exist Without Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wild-new-study-suggests-gravity-can-exist-without-mass2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is gravity without mass? Both <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newton%27s_law_of_universal_gravitation\">Newton\u2019s revolutionary<\/a> laws describing its universal effect and Einstein\u2019s proposal of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/general-relativity\">dimpled spacetime<\/a>, we\u2019ve thought of gravity as exclusively within the domain of matter.<\/p>\n<p>Now a wild new study suggesting that gravity can exist without mass, conveniently eliminating the need for one of the most elusive substances in our Universe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/dark-matter\">dark matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/dark-matter\">Dark matter<\/a> is a hypothetical, invisible mass thought to make up 85 percent of the Universe\u2019s total bulk. Originally devised to <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/physics\/dark-matter\">account for galaxies<\/a> holding together under high speed rotation, it has yet to be directly observed, leading physicists to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-controversial-new-gravity-hypothesis-has-passed-its-first-test\">propose all sorts<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics\">out-there ideas<\/a> to avoid invoking this elusive material as a way to plug the holes in current theories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is gravity without mass? Both Newton\u2019s revolutionary laws describing its universal effect and Einstein\u2019s proposal of a dimpled spacetime, we\u2019ve thought of gravity as exclusively within the domain of matter. Now a wild new study suggesting that gravity can exist without mass, conveniently eliminating the need for one of the most elusive substances in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}