Is gravitational attraction finite?

[Codester09]

Is there a distance where the curvature in spacetime created by an object's mass ends? Is it a finite gravity well or does the curvature just get infinitely weaker?

 

[HallsofIvy]

Both Newton's and Einstein's theories of gravity, as far as I know, give a gravity field that extends infinitely, approaching 0 as the distance approaches infinity.

 

[Codester09]

So if gravitational attraction is infinite, does that mean there is no such thing as flat, empty spacetime? Is all spacetime warped in some way or another?

 

[Vanadium 50]

There's not even such thing as empty space. Look around you at night - space is filled with stuff.

However, that doesn't mean that flat spacetime is not a useful idealization, like a frictionless plane or a stretchless rope.

 

[Codester09]

Yea empty probably wasn't the best word choice. I meant a region of spacetime unaffected by any objects/their gravitational pull.

 

[dacruick]

I'd imagine that there must be a point in space where the sum of gravitational components is 0. but for the sake of your question,there is no where in space unaffected by a force.