Is gravity a force?

[scooterscot]

Many refer to the text and spout it's one of the four fundamental forces. Yet after all me years of study and what I've been told, I see different. I see a mass following the curvature of spacetime.

So what the heck is a force?

[d000hg]

Apparently we've moved on to each force being considered a field with a value at ever point in space(-time?)

I was reading a book about the LHC and it moved into that part and I got confused because I stopped reading these things when string-theory was new and cool.

But how all these different theories reconcile IS where you need to be a proper physicist who understands the maths, I reckon.

[SpontaneousOrder]

Gravity is a virtual force.

[VectraMan]

A force makes a mass accelerate, and gravity does that. Simple innit?

[OwlHoot]

Mass tells space how to curve, and space tells mass how to move.

According to GR

HTH

[SlipTheJab]

Mass tells space how to curve, and space tells mass how to move.

According to GR

HTH

As in 'move your mass-ive ar$e MF I need some space' HTH

[OwlHoot]

Relevant Physics Stack Exchange thread

[BrilloPad]

Objects are forced towards large objects. Like MF.

[barrydidit]

Gravity sucks

[NickFitz]

Maybe we've got it the wrong way round, and gravity is a repulsive force from the rest of the universe pushing us down?