human gravity

smokering0

This question came to me as having an obvious answer yet I dont know. If a human is floating in space they bend spacetime themselves and could technically have small stuff orbit them. Sorry for the dumb question; just been bothering me.
thanks for any help

Tac-Tics

It's all about magnitudes. Just because something is definite and measurable doesn't mean it matters in the long run. I can spit in the ocean all day, but the water will never rise because of it.

Redbelly98

Yes, theoretically that is true.

Quiz question for you: imagine an object (mass M) orbiting a person (mass 80 kg) in a 10m radius orbit. How far from the Earth must the person be, so that the Earth's gravitational pull on the object is 1/10 that of the person's gravitational pull on the object?

Use Newton's law of gravitation,

F_grav = G M_a M_b / d²