Originally Posted By: K
Of course if gravity isn't a force then throw away F=mg and F=G m1 m2 / r^2,


I agree, this is a large part of my problem, but then I read things like: "Today we understand gravity through Einstein’s theory rather than Newton’s, and we know that no such force exists.....Nothing is pulling us downwards." (David Deutsch. “The Fabric of Reality”), and I think: all these chunks of matter are being diverted/moved about by something that is distorting spacetime, but "nothing" is doing it.

There never was nothing.