Sunday, January 21, 2018

Gravity/Energy relationship


I understand that gravity is not energy, but is force, but my question revolves around if the presence of gravity in the universe results in a continuous amount of energy, from gravity-induced collapsing and the resulting explosion that occurs in stars/nova, as an example ?


Can this process of mass, contracting as a result of gravity, into stars, and then the explosions/nova that occurs later on, only to be followed again by another cycle of contracting, continue indefinitely, almost like "perpetual motion" ?




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