[Micoloth]

That’s what i though as well

> Why apples fall, why planets don’t wander off, and why we aren’t all quietly drifting into space every time we sneeze.

Newton didnt really explain the why.. Einstein added something much later, but it might be that really we still don’t have a clue.

All we can do is measure how fast it happens, very precisely

[TMEHpodcast]

You’re correct. Newton wasn’t proposing a mechanism or deeper cause for gravity; he just described its effects. Einstein did add a “why” of sorts, with general relativity, he reframed gravity not as a force but as the curvature of spacetime caused by mass and energy. That’s closer to a mechanism, but even there we might ask: why does mass curve spacetime? And we don’t have a deeper answer to that.