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Q: Who is the person that is most closely related to the theory of gravitation?
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What evidence proves that gravity is a force at a distance?

We observe planets, moons, comets, and artificial satellites and space probes moving in relation to the central body within their orbits exactly as we would expect them to move if the theory of universal gravitation is true. This evidence supports the theory of force at a distance due to universal gravitation, but doesn't prove it. It's still "only a theory", which can never be proven, but can be disproven in half-a-second if we ever see a situation where it's not working that way.


Who named the force gravity?

Sir Isaac Newton, the English Mathematician and Physicist who created the theory of gravity that explained the effects of it that we see around us, called it "Universal Gravitation".


Who gave the theory of gravity?

Modern work on gravitational theory began with the work of Galileo Galilei in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. In his famous ) experiment dropping balls from the Tower of Pisa, and later with careful measurements of balls rolling down inclines, Galileo showed that gravitation accelerates all objects at the same rate.In 1687, English mathematician Sir Isaac Newton published Principia, which hypothesizes the inverse-square law of universal gravitation.


Why do planets take different times to orbit the sun?

Kepler's Third Law of Planetary Motion gives the mathematical formula for this. Isaac Newton proved the Law follows from his theory of gravitation. I will not go into the mathematics, but basically it's just how gravity works with planets.


What is the current theory on how the universe started?

For most of the 1900's it was the steady-state theory. In recent times it has been pretty much replaced by the big bang theory.