Greetings fellow scientists! Faddy here coming to you with a question that has been on my mind for some time now: If you were to take two apples into space, would they orbit each other? If so, why? If not, why not? What about three? Feel free to ask a question of your own if you feel so inclined (please try to make the question about science)
Technically speaking, they would be attracted to each other, since gravity pulls together ALL matter even though almost every interaction is too weak to be observed. The only reason that our universe is not crushed by gravity (yet) is because of an unseen force dubbed "dark energy". Most of this stuff is hypothetical, and dark energy and/or other gravity could affect the pull of the apples. But in a hypothetical world with absolutely no matter except for the 2 apples, and there was no presence of dark energy, they would indeed act like planets, no matter how slowly it may be occurring. I know I'm probably overthinking it but whatevs. This is physics for ya. Deal with it. :3
It's called dark energy/dark matter because they do not know what it is. Could be a collection of phenomenons, or just be one thing. And I am not sure if the dark stuffs prevents the gravity from crushing us is true, I don't know how to explain though :l.
