To hide this ignorance, it provides occult answers for explainable reality. The force of attraction becomes a property of matter. Motion is ascribed to unclear historical forces that no longer exist. Black holes in space, dark matter, worm holes tunnelling through space and time. Modern science hides its inability to explain the obvious behind explanations of the exotic.
Progress is dependent on being able to construct a consistent picture of physical phenomena.
The inability of modern science to explain the obvious retards progress. It uses the same concepts to construct a mind that can perceive both physical phenomena and itself. The conceptual shift is simple. A measurable mechanism is substituted for non-measurable mass as the source of the attractive force. This mechanism, which regulates the uniform expansion of electromagnetic emission fields, reflects the inverse square law applicable to falling objects.