[BilboGrabbins]

Newtons are a measure of force, by definition. If you are measuring newtons, you are measuring force.

You need to update yourself. Newtons idea of gravity was long overthrown by General Relativity. Spacetime is not mediated by a Newton. It's not mediated by particles which can exert a force as Newtons.

[Kryptid]

Spacetime is not mediated by a Newton. It's not mediated by particles which can exert a force as Newtons.

I never said it was.

[BilboGrabbins]

But that's what you would be saying from this dichotomy. If you accept gravity is the curvature of space, and you think its a force, then stating it's a real force that is measured in Newtons.

[Kryptid]

But that's what you would be saying from this dichotomy. If you accept gravity is the curvature of space, and you think its a force, then stating it's a real force that is measured in Newtons.

Nothing that I said implies that space-time is mediated by newtons (which wouldn't make sense, as a unit of measurement can't "mediate" anything).

[BilboGrabbins]

I think this could be too confusing the whole Newtons thing, because gravity, while it is true the acceleration is a gravitational field strength (g) in Newtons per kg. But the idea of Newtonians field and that described by Einstein are very different.

[Kryptid]

I think this could be too confusing the whole Newtons thing, because gravity, while it is true the acceleration is a gravitational field strength (g) in Newtons per kg. But the idea of Newtonians field and that described by Einstein are very different.

I'm speaking of the newton as a unit of measurement, not Newton's model of gravity.