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Originally Posted by DARISC
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You do strike me as a competent physicist, however.
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I think that you left out two letters
"in"
Any competent physicist would understand that gravity is universally attractive. It does one thing and only one thing, it is a force of attraction between two masses. The magnitude of the attraction depends solely on the masses of the bodies and the distance between them, the direction is always attractive along the axis between them.
Differential attractive forces due to differential distances will lead in the extreme case to 'spaghettification' of an object. The gravitational force on the near sides of the objects being stronger than the gravitational force on the far sides leads to a stretching in an axial direction, as the objects stretch due to this differential in gravitational forces they become longer and narrower but there is no tangential comperessive force other than the electronic and atomic bonds holding the molecules and atoms of the objects together. In the most extreme case even these bonds acan be overcome.