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Thanks!
I wouldn't be able to answer using Newtonian gravity, I've never seen the theory explained (that I remember). I see more reading in my near future.
I obviously don't understand the words "dissipative force" in the same way you do. I thought I had that part down too. I thought it means that the energy you are concerned about is getting changed into energy not useful to you, like "waste" heat. So then friction would be dissipative. Please point me in a direction to learn more.
Well, a more poetic description of Newtonian gravity (which may or may not also be reusable for relativity with some edits) goes that:
"The entire Universe longs to be in equilibrium, in balance. This equilibrium was disrupted some 13.75 billion years ago, and since then all the splinters have been trying to reunite into a single whole, the distance between them and various other forces hampering their quest to become one again. It is the natural equilibrium that all masses attract eachother in the same way that opposite electromagnetic charges must attract eachother. "