Thanks to all who replied, your answers helped me to conceptualize this and brought into play forces and energy I had overlooked in my simplified examples. Thanks again
Toddman
I am not a mathematician or a physicist so this may be a dumb question. If the force we call gravity is caused by an object's mass bending or curving space/time and creating a gravity well that causes other objects to be drawn into this well; it seems that all objects should eventually spiral...