As I understand it, gravity arises from the curvature of spacetime which is described by the Stress-Energy Tensor which only accounts for energy and momentum in a given part of spacetime.
So, really it’s like energy is actually what causes gravity in the first place, not mass. Massive things have large gravitational pull because mass itself has/is energy, E = mc2. This energy and its motion curves space and gravity results from that curvature.
Then again, I’m an engineering student not a physicist, so maybe I’ve got something wrong.
Do you have a citation that energy has a gravitational pull?
General Relativity
As I understand it, gravity arises from the curvature of spacetime which is described by the Stress-Energy Tensor which only accounts for energy and momentum in a given part of spacetime.
So, really it’s like energy is actually what causes gravity in the first place, not mass. Massive things have large gravitational pull because mass itself has/is energy, E = mc2. This energy and its motion curves space and gravity results from that curvature.
Then again, I’m an engineering student not a physicist, so maybe I’ve got something wrong.
That’s pretty fascinating.