The theory of gravity says objects attract other objects in the universe using a force that is directly proportional to their masses. The greater an object’s mass, the greater the gravitational force. (Like so many origin stories, including those in Silicon Valley, the one where Isaac Newton came up with his famous theory when he saw an apple fall from a tree is probably a myth.)
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Scientists know four forces - things that attract or repel one object from another. The strong force and the weak force operate only inside the centres of atoms. The electromagnetic force rules objects with excess charge, and gravity
In 1687, Isaac Newton's treatise Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica showed that every object in the universe, small and great, pulled on every other object, from a grain of sand to the planets.
Newton could compute the attraction: Doubling the mass of one object makes it...
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