its literally impossible to displace space in a convex way like ball on a sheet, we are weightless in the tangent of cold space, objects (like like planets and stars) in space are literally weightless and cannot effect space by virtue of there own displacement like the examples of an object on bed sheet.
Gravity like logic is linear and will only draw an item or another object in a linear path toward the greatest center of its density (along with its spin), an object (planet or star) will only draw in space spherically and evenly in alignment with the most relevant point of its core, light is always curving towards the most relevant area of gravity.
Gravity is more like a logical, even metaphysical concept. Less so a physical-scientific one.
Think about this philosophically: all Being attempts to remain as it is. Otherwise it would not be what it is. Any ‘being’ in existence has a tendency to self-value itself, to “want” (tend to) hold itself together as it already is, and will resist (up to a point) pressures that would otherwise pull it apart.
Then realize that the entire universe is “one thing”, one being; from the higher vantage point and especially if you consider the Big Bang, the whole of our universe is literally one thing. And each part within it, like organs or cells or molecules in our own bodies, are also their own beings part of the greater Whole.
Now apply the logic of the fact that beings tend to self-value and resist changes that would tend to cause them to fall apart/stop being what they are.
And a la, that is “gravity”. On the most basic level of meaning possible. And there are plenty of other examples of “gravity” at work, like the fact that I eat things that sustain nutritionally my own existence while avoiding things that would end my own existence.
Flannnel Jesus’ reply is self-evidently unphilosophical. HumaNize’s reply appears to be the reply Aristotle would have made. Your real mistake is to confuse weight with mass. I may be weightless in space, or when falling from a high building, but my mass will be the same as if I were standing on solid ground. Actually, it’s high school physics.
What if being doesn’t have to attempt to remain as it is, but, because of what it is, its essence, it must demonstrate what it is? And everything resolves back to that demonstration—nothing goes too far afield of that demonstration—it is essence that holds it all together and guides it toward that demonstration.
