These mechanical explanations for gravity never gained widespread acceptance, although such ideas continued to be studied occasionally by physicists until the beginning of the twentieth century, by which time it was generally considered to be conclusively discredited.
Denna mekaniska förklaring till gravitationen nådde aldrig utbredd acceptans, även om den fortsatte att studeras av många kända fysiker fram till början av 1900-talet, då den allmänt ansågs slutgiltigt misskrediterad.