Greetings all,
I'm new to all this, and this is my first post. Please pardon me for mistakes both in a grammatical and scientific sense....
I have read a few news articles on black holes, dark matter, etc. In basically all of them, they use gravity and the General Theory of Relativity interchangeably. Now, I have learned that for the General Theory of Relativity to be true; gravity cannot exist. If mass bends space (I'm using the general form I have learned) then there is no force pulling cosmic objects into orbit; mass (e.g. the sun) bends space causing objects (e.g. the planets) to be moved off of their straight line of constant motion and pulled (sorry, I could only think of the word pulled) into an elliptical orbit.
For gravity to exist, there is a pull on all the cosmic objects which puts them into an elliptical orbit around a large body of mass that has a great gravitational pull. For this to happen, (I have learned) the General Theory of Relativity cannot be true.
Now that I've probably bored you with my shabby knowledge of gravity and the General Theory of Relativity; here is my question:
For either gravity or the General Theory of Relativity to exist/to be true, do they require for the other to not exist?
There we go; I hope that all didn't bore you, thanks for reading!