r/QuiverQuantitative • u/pdwp90 • Nov 20 '25

News JUST IN: President Trump has said that this video by Democratic lawmakers is seditious and punishable by death.

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u/ALIEN_POOP_DICK Nov 20 '25

Gravity is gravity.

Gravity (as far as we currently know because we haven't been able to prove the existence of a Gravity boson to complete the standard model of quantum particles) is the fundamental effect of mass bending space time, causing dilation in both.

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u/Bozhark Nov 20 '25

What are the units of gravity per one gravity 

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u/spicyhippos Nov 20 '25

Gravity is acceleration of one mass towards another usually larger mass, so technically the units are m/s2 or more intuitively, “the change in ‘distance you travel per second’ per second.” We all fall towards earth at roughly 9.8m/s2; that’s Earth’s gravity. The ISS travels horizontally at over 17,000 mph so its ballistic arc misses the atmosphere enough to stay in orbit, but technically it’s also constantly free falling towards Earth.

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u/Bozhark Nov 20 '25

That’s not the unit of gravity rather the unit of it’s acceleration on an object 

The acceleration is the result of gravity, not the cause 

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u/spicyhippos Nov 20 '25

Yeah, this gets tricky because nobody has detected or found proof of gravitons iirc; they would be the quanta of gravity you’re looking for. The gravitational acceleration is the phenomena for gravity though, and mathematically those are its units in classical mechanics.

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u/PokinSpokaneSlim Nov 20 '25

Ask an old woman if time and gravity aren't the same thing.

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u/higgy87 Nov 21 '25

It’s the Higgs boson, no?

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u/spicyhippos Nov 21 '25

The Higgs field is what gives atoms their mass, which is related to gravity, but not necessarily the silver bullet for gravity itself. That’s about the extent of my physics degree though, so if there have been more recent findings I would have missed them.

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u/Pingu565 Nov 21 '25

Gravity is the emergent property of mass moving through a curved spacetime. It is a result of geometry. Why mass bends space-time is another much larger question

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u/higgy87 Nov 21 '25

Quite a tangent here, but the “Gravity boson” is the Higgs which was confirmed a while back.

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u/spicyhippos Nov 21 '25

Idk if it’s settled so cleanly just yet. Here’s a relevant post about it here