Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying, but I believe science does know “where gravity comes from” and can even describe it mathematically. It comes from the curvature of space-time around mass.
But that point aside yes Elon Musk is a fucking dolt and this is a stupid trick.
We still don't know specifically where gravity originates in a proton/neutron. It comes from mass but which sub-atomic particle and why? We also don't know exactly why electricity causes magnetism, another basic principle of classical physics. It's just accepted as a given, and we move on. Basic physics has only been discovered in about the last 100 years, so it's relatively new.
Magnetism and electromagnetic field is well described.
The gravity as well is quite well described.
We still don't know specifically where gravity originates in a proton/neutron
This sentence doesn't even make any sense.
The main gap is between quantum mechanics and general relativity, but this gap doesn't invalidate either. And has nothing to do about understanding the "cause of gravity" is basically about one describes and requires the reality to be smooth/continuous the other describes it as chunky, or quantised if you will. And there are several very plausible hypothesis on how to resolve the gap, the tricky part is to prove it, as for most of those we do not have the energy/tools required
QFT? Really skimming the surface here because one can't go into quantum field theory with few simple anecdotes. Electrons are excitation in electron field (analogy is a wave in the field). Electromagnetism is a field interaction, electron field is tied to the electromagnetic field. As the wave/excitation moves through the electron field it creates a ripple in the electromagnetic field which creates a "magnetic wave".
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u/dadkisser 9h ago
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying, but I believe science does know “where gravity comes from” and can even describe it mathematically. It comes from the curvature of space-time around mass.
But that point aside yes Elon Musk is a fucking dolt and this is a stupid trick.