The Moon, man, it's like wierding me out.

Okay, so we all learned stuff about the universe in middle school science. But there's still stuff that still makes my brain turn on itself. Like the moon. If you've ever seen the moon through a telescope (I have) it is really triply. Because even though we know all kinds of facts about the moon and we see it all the time, when you watch it up close it is really eerie.  It DOES NOT rotate! Ever! (At least it appears this way) I know we're used to always seeing the same side of the moon, but seeing it creep across a telescope as though it's just staring at you. Creeps me out. Go to the 15 second mark on the embedded video.



See what I mean?
So apparently this is caused by the "fact" that "gravity" is pulling at the moon and through some hokey science called tidal locking "gravity" keeps the same side facing us. Keep in mind this "fact" is the unprovable theory of gravity (we can only observe symptoms of the theory. Which can be explained a dozen other ways. How do we know that objects aren't drawn together from magnetism?(( just to name one)) You can levitate water with magnetism. )
How much do we really know about the moon? Science theorizes that it was an asteroid that collided with the earth, shattered, and one of it's fragments got stuck in our orbit and eventually became round. ??? What? Suddenly believing in magical unicorns doesn't sound so far fetched.
Okay so the moon does rotate. Exactly once per cycle around the Earth. Which is why we always see the same side of the moon no matter where you are on the Earth.
And this is apparently caused by  friction braking from gravity that misshapes the two planets as they pull on each other? Then why don't all the planets do this around the sun? Why do other planets and their moons act differently?
"Gravity", hah!
Some people theorize that the moon has more iron on the side facing us, thus that side is magnetically attracted to the Earth. Sounds a lot more plausible to me.
I'm not so sure about this gravity business. If we know that the further up you go the denser the atmosphere is (more pressure), then why couldn't objects be pushed down from the pressure rather than attracted to the Earth?
Einstein proved that gravity exists by studying how light bends towards large objects, then why does light travel AWAY from the largest object in our solar system? Shouldn't stars be in themselves black holes? If gravity is real and the larger the mass, the greater the friction (heat); the more gravity it has, then shouldn't suns attract light rather than produce it?
Think about it.
Why aren't feathers attracted to each other as they float down? If you put several objects suspended in water shouldn't they float to each other and stay attached to each other? When astronauts are in space why do they float away from the craft? Shouldn't their proximity to the larger mass attract them to it? The more you think about gravity the more ridiculous it becomes. Obviously there is something else at work.