Re: pinhole Why does the earth exert a large gravitational force on

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From: Jhumki Basu (sjbasu@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 10 2000 - 16:57:31 PST 

From: "Jhumki Basu" <sjbasu@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: pinhole Why does the earth exert a large gravitational force on
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 00:57:31 GMT
Message-ID: <F24bfZj7rYMqTx6I64c000010c3@hotmail.com>

>gravitational forces act on mass
>The force is actually the product of the charges on the two objects or the
>product of the masses.

>the more mass, the larger the gravitational force.
>
>The model we have for forces is that charges exchange virtual photons to
>create the force, electric force, more charge means more virtual photons
>means more force.

>Mass exchanges gravitons.

>Hope this helps.

Sort of, but not entirely. Her question was "Why does greater mass result in
greater gravitational force?"

Thank you!

Jhumki

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