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Hi Drakkith, Thanks for the reply. That's what I thought I read, but it raised a question for me: if gravity is warped space, then why does it take an acceleration of 11.2km per second to escape Earth's gravity? I'm clearly missing something here. I may not be understanding and/or asking the...

Hi all, I'm doing some reading about special/general relativity, and have come across the ideas of curved space etc. I've very much a novice in physics, so please excuse my (possibly) stupid questions. For background, I'm interested in writing a sci-fi story, and would like to have at least...