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Why is gravity only attractive?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Technically, it's not. It's only attractive between two positive masses or two

negative masses. One positive mass and one negative mass would repel each

other. It's just that we've never encountered a piece of negative mass yet.

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