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Is there a fundamental relationship between Coulomb's law and Newton's Law of Gravitation? [duplicate]

It seems like the two equations are identical indicates that there is something more going on that unites them both, maybe in a cool way or something. Why are these two laws so similar?
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How do moving charges produce magnetic fields?

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In the Wikipedia article Classical Field Theory (Gravitation), it says After Newtonian gravitation was found to be inconsistent with special relativity, . . . I don't see how Newtonian gravitation ...
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Why is there no gravitational magnetic field? (Or, is there?)

We can think that the electric field and the gravitational field operate similarly in the sense that the forms of their governing laws (namely, Coulomb's law and Newton's law respectively) are ...
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Noticing that Newtonian gravity and electrostatics are equivalent, is there also a relationship between the general relativity and electrodynamics?

In classical mechanics, we had Newton's law of gravity $F \propto \frac{Mm}{r^2}$. Because of this, all laws of classical electrostatics applied to classical gravity if we assumed that all charges ...
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Can Newton’s law of gravitation be derived from Coulomb’s law? [duplicate]

I’m casually learning physics and have noticed that Newton’s law of gravitation and the electrostatic force formulas look similar. I’ve asked this question before but would really appreciate another ...
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Is Newton's universal gravitational constant the inverse of permittivity of mass in vacuum?

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What is the difference between an electric field and gravitational field? [duplicate]

Since the electrostatic field and the Newtonian gravitational field share a similar form: proportional to $$\frac{1}{r^2}$$ Is there any qualitative difference between motions under the ...
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What conservation law is implied by the symmetry between Newton's law of gravitation and Coulomb's law?

My question relates to Noether's theorem, which I've recently been reading about, and I couldn't find any good answers on the internet relating a conservation law to the symmetry between Newton's law ...
The gravitational force between two masses is given by: $$\vec{F_g}=G\frac{m_1m_2}{r^2}$$ and the electrostatic force between two charged particles by: $$\vec{F_e}=k\frac{q_1q_2}{r^2}$$ Both the ...