Am I attracting Pluto?

Question

My question is simple: as the title says, **am I exerting a force over for example Pluto**, although it is a **very small** force, it is there, right? Or maybe let's go further: **Am I exerting a gravity force on everything in this universe**, for example the farthest galaxy that we know?

Answer 1

In the Newtonian model, yes! The gravitational attraction goes inversely as the square of the distance between the objects. The force will approach zero for arbitrarily large distances. But yes, you are pulling on Pluto and Pluto is pulling on you with the same minuscule intensity. And you are exerting a gravitational force on everything in this universe as everything in this universe is exerting a gravitational force on you.