Thread: Does Energy Affect Gravity and the other way around?

Since E=MC^2

I have a question about energy.

Since mass affects space time by warping it thus causing gravity (let me know if that's true or not I am not 100% sure on this). And energy and mass are welcome, so does energy affect gravity?

Let's say I had a 1,000 ton nuclear bomb in the middle of the solar system, if i detonated that bomb right after detonation when most of the mass has been converted to energy and has not spread out yet, would the gravitational pull of the bomb remains + energy be the same?


If it is that is amazing!


Let me know, thanks

Originally Posted by ScienceNoob

so does energy affect gravity?

Precession of Mercury.

Originally Posted by ScienceNoob

Since E=MC^2

I have a question about energy.

Since mass affects space time by warping it thus causing gravity (let me know if that's true or not I am not 100% sure on this). And energy and mass are welcome, so does energy affect gravity?

Let's say I had a 1,000 ton nuclear bomb in the middle of the solar system, if i detonated that bomb right after detonation when most of the mass has been converted to energy and has not spread out yet, would the gravitational pull of the bomb remains + energy be the same?


If it is that is amazing!


Let me know, thanks

The right hand side of the EFE's is the stress-energy tensor. So, energy is one of the sources of gravity.

nd energy and mass are welcome, so does energy affect gravity?

Yes, all forms of energy are a source of gravity - this includes momentum, stress, flux etc etc. Gravity is also self-interacting, so certain configurations of "warping" can be held together by their very own gravitational self-energy, without any other sources being present.