Gravity & Mass: Question about Affecting Something with No Mass

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Gravity affects all objects, including those without mass, such as photons. Even massless entities follow geodesic lines in curved spacetime due to gravitational influence. The discussion highlights that while ordinary objects contain mass, massless particles still experience gravity, evidenced by phenomena like gravitational lensing. An example provided is how light is bent by the sun's gravitational field during an eclipse. Thus, gravity's reach extends beyond mass, impacting all forms of energy.
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First, I am new here, I did a quick search but didn't find the answer I was looking for so if I missed it don't be impolite :)

I have a "small" question about gravity.
Would it affect something that had no mass?

Just a odd/weird example: If I had a car without mass, would gravity affect it?
 
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Everyrhing is affected by gravity because it tends to follow geodesic lines in curved spacetime, regardless of (rest) mass. BTW, ordinary objects, which contain fermions in their composition cannot be massless.
 
gravity affects all objects even those particles without mass ( for example, the photon) we can see this in gravitational lensing. When there is an eclipse of the sun, we can see that photons (Light) are attracted by the suns gravitational field :D
 
So I know that electrons are fundamental, there's no 'material' that makes them up, it's like talking about a colour itself rather than a car or a flower. Now protons and neutrons and quarks and whatever other stuff is there fundamentally, I want someone to kind of teach me these, I have a lot of questions that books might not give the answer in the way I understand. Thanks
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