The Gravity of the Situation!!

Ahh.. here goes! I wonder when my fascination with space and with galactic entities found its roots. It must have been the day my friend- Ajit and I took a peek into his big book and saw the Earth for the first time, that beautiful blue-green ball embraced in a sea of stars and a big fiery ball to its left..( I was too young that time to identify it as earth… I probably thought it to be the most wonderful football beside someone’s fireplace) It was only after later ruminations that I realized it as the ground we live on. During those days of most ignorant bliss, I actually thought the ground was flat. And every jaunt to the sea side made me wonder how the water keeps replenishing itself when it should theoretically fall of the earth's edges( rain was definitely a probable solution… but all the more unsatisfactory).
Slowly as this imperceptible quantity called time passed by, through my schooling years, I came across this bloke called Newton. (which was probably in sixth grade) It seems that he was sleeping under an apple tree one day when this ripe red forbidden fruit falls on his head.. BONK !!( I say that was one source of fitful laughter. Imagine a white haired man, in tights , being hit on the head by a tree he was sleeping under) and voi-la the next moment he solves this great mystery .It seems that all along the earth was round and everything was pulled towards its main big mass because of some force called gravity . That’s why apples fell on heads! Hmmm… why apples though? Why not oranges? or coconuts? I am sure, even in those times everything fell. You see something falling everyday. Rocks, rain, Columbia …..everything! I suppose it was the impact. It must have addled his brains. Tell me which sane person would come up with such an obscure explanation? Personally I stuck to my theory:-Firstly it all depends on the big-ness of the person, the bigger the person is, the harder it is to jump. Which explains why the chap next door cant jump. Short and simple! Secondly, if you are strong and jump hard enough , you can always reach the stars, I mean look at hanuman! he did it right?
Anyways as I told u , I was ignorant. Again this imperceptible quantity called time passed by. I was 12th grade now. By this time I had read all about the force field surrounding every mass. An attractive power that draws u to itself! (beautiful people must have a stock full of gravity field). Why God Why?? Why did thou not bless me with copious gravity?? OK after a fair bit of profanities I move on. Suddenly this one fine morning, I find myself cuddled up with this big red book( my life is full of big books!I think it is their greater share of gravity that attracts me to them) called Elements of Physics by Halliday- Resnick, when I come across a term - Gravitons!! Hmm that struck a chord somewhere!! I know electrons, protons etc. They are responsible for electric fields aren't they? What the heck were gravitons? So I indulged further in the reading of the big red B! And this indulging business confirmed my worst fears. Here I was feeling really contended and warmed up with the force theory of gravity, postulated by a few greats( principal--ly that white haired bloke with addled brains), and these new sctientists ( physicists they call themselves) come up with a grossly new theory; of gravity made of gravitons! Akin to electricity made of electrons! Imagine being pulled by miniscule particles along a path with invisible spindles towards some unknown quantity. Calculate the possibilities. Do you realise how many gravitons might be pulling you at this very moment in a gamut of directions bordering upon infinity? I feel stretched already!
Damn it I say! Why cant we just leave things be? Why should everything be studied so extensively as to destroy the very divinity of these phenomena. Why cant we not live in a world where red is red, and big books are big books instead of a particularly well arranged structure of organic molecules? I wonder where this will lead us to next. 10 years down the lane I might find my 5 year old son grappling with terms and phenomena that he cannot fathom. Do you realise the Gravity of the situation? Or should i say the Gravitons of the situation!