Hawk, being a paid up fan club member of small forces having effects, which in some circumstances can synergize to large ones, I shouldn't push the gravity-only barrow too strongly.
The Four Forces of the Apocalypse en.wikipedia.org all get to have a say in what happens, especially when they are crowded up together in places like the sun.
As that second link you gave says, information on what those forces do is evident everywhere, but exactly what they are and how they do it is another question altogether.
Anyway, the big thing seems to be a potential pole flip on Earth. That could well be interesting.
Earth certainly isn't as stable as I thought when young. At that time, Earth seemed to change in geological time measured in eons. Even trees were impossibly old. Now, trees seem to last a short time and they grow to full size while I watch them. Forests have appeared, twice over and the third crop is on the way in my few decades. When young it seemed incomprehensible to plant a forest as a way of making money since they didn't even get big enough to cut for 25 years, which seemed like essentially forever.
Now gravity is being pushed sideways by magnetic forces and maybe the strong and weak forces too.
Gravity is already pushed around by "dark matter". The old idea of stuff being pulled and doing pulling based on it being a "thing", like a big rock, or even just a hydrogen molecule lost in space, is being squished as photons, neutrinos and everything else contributes to gravitational pulling, and maybe other pulling too. If Earth's north pole is aligned against Mars and Venus poles with poles attracting or pushing, things could get wobbly [in a minuscule way].
There's no end of entertainment and finding ways to survive in the Cosmos. There's always another incoming.
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