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The cause of gravitational attraction does not change with the masses of objects.

The cause itself is still debatable because gravity has not yet been successfully incorporated into the Standard Model (which is the model which describes how particles behave and how they interact which each other).

There is a separate theory, called the theory of general relativity, which posits that energy causes spacetime to bend, and what we experience as gravity is actually just objects moving through this bent spacetime.

Most attempts to try to combine general relativity with the Standard Model predict that gravity is transmitted via the use of a messenger particle called the graviton. This is the way all other forces of nature work according to the Standard Model. In this view the cause of gravity would be the exchange of gravitons.

On a deeper somewhat technical level, scientists have discovered that all other forces (electromagnetic, weak nuclear and strong nuclear) can be traced back to certain symmetries of nature. These symmetries can be described via the use of mathematical groups. The same thing can be done for gravity and in that way gravity would automatically be caused by the Universe being symmetric under SO(3,1) (the Lorentz group) operations.

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One of the factors affecting gravitational attraction between objects?

The masses of the different objects The distance between them


Is there more gravitational force between objects with small masses or objects with large masses?

Objects of greater mass have more gravitational pull.


What causes an object to have a gravitational pull?

Gravitational force between objects is proportional to the sum of their mass and inversely proportional to the square of their distance


How does gravitational force compare between objects that have small masses and objects that have large masses?

It will be larger between the large objects. This force is equal to the universal gravitational constant times the two masses of the objects, all divided by the square of the distance apart the objects are.


How does mass of objects affect gravitational force between objects?

The gravitational force is directly proportional to each of the masses.


What causes force?

A gravitational field is caused by masses. This will distort space and time in such a way that it affects other objects, and especially objects that are nearby.


What causes the Moon's gravitational fields?

Gravitational fields are caused by masses.


When Is the gravitational pull between two objects that have greater masses?

The gravitational pull is always present: there is no "when".


The gravitational attraction between two objects decreases if?

their masses increase


Does gravitational force increase with the masses and nearness of two objects?

Yes. It is directly proportional to the product of the masses of the two objects and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.


What things affect the gravitational force between 2 masses?

-- the product of their individual masses -- the distance between their centers The formula for the gravitational force is given by: force = GMm/r² where G is the gravitational constant, M and m are the masses of the two objects and r is the distance between their centres.


What objects have a gravitational attraction for other objects will what if one objects acquires more mass?

The gravitational attraction between two masses depends on the product of the masses. If either mass increases, then the product increases, and so does the strength of the forces between them.