newtonian gravity

"I wouldn't know a spacetime continuum or a warp core breach if they got into bed with me." -Patrick Stewart It's the end of the week once again, and so it's time for another Ask Ethan segment! There have been scores of good questions to choose from that were submitted this month alone (and you can submit yours here), but this week's comes from our reader garbulky, who asks: Why does gravity decrease the further away you are from the object? I've read that it does decrease with distance squared but not why it does this. This question seems so simple, and yet the answer -- to the limits of our…