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    Why is the fabric of space and time always portrayed flat?

    Thanks again to everybody for your responses. I can see that my original question could give birth to a million more. I am new at this. I think i need to do some reading and get my fundamentals down.
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    Why is the fabric of space and time always portrayed flat?

    Back to this. a simpler version of my question of "is the warp infinite" would have been for me to ask if dead space is also dispersed. If i throw a rock in a lake all the water has to move, basically. So if a new object pops into existence in space, the warp would only affect its...
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    Why is the fabric of space and time always portrayed flat?

    wait...sorry, just want to make sure i understand you. When you say local, you mean local to the "photon" right? Edit - I think i got it now. You're talking about proper time. A clock on the object. I got that, but just found another cool adamstoon visualization that clarified things a bit...
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    Suggested topics for a beginner in QP? What got you hooked?

    Thanks for the reading list bill - much appreciated. I got the calculus book already. Thank you for the direction
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    Suggested topics for a beginner in QP? What got you hooked?

    Thank you - I knew that's what someone would say. I am getting some ebooks now
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    Why is the fabric of space and time always portrayed flat?

    So basically this is saying that if a photon, for example, was traveling in an assumed straight line past a massive object, it would actually slow down while passing by it? hence the time dimension of the fabric. The adamtoons thing was great, Thank you. So i need to think less about the...
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    Exploring Physics: A Beginner's Guide on Physics Forums

    Hi all. great forum. I am fairly new to physics, looking to learn. Thanks for having me
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    Suggested topics for a beginner in QP? What got you hooked?

    Hi all. Been reading this forum for a few days. A bit overwhelming. I've been studying quantum physics on my own for about a year. My learning started out with youtube docs, and mostly still is. Alot of Michio Kaku. You guys are probably laughing at me here. I started my search for...
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    Why is the fabric of space and time always portrayed flat?

    Thanks for taking the time to explain that, and for the book link peter. I can't honestly say i completely understand, but I am getting closer, and I feel a lot better about learning that it's people in general, and not just me, that has trouble visualizing curved surfaces with more than two...
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    Why is the fabric of space and time always portrayed flat?

    Thanks for the response newjersey runner. That makes sense, but I may not have been completely clear explaining the scenario in my head. What i meant about the fabric bending infinitely is in this scenario... A brand new object either appears out of nowhere or has an extreme gain of mass...
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    Why is the fabric of space and time always portrayed flat?

    thanks for the responses ok, but what about this? Assume there is a massive object warping the space-time fabric. Would the warp be infinite? or maybe gradually declining. In my head i am imagining a wormhole... with the space-time fabric folded over to meet at the wormhole, but suppose...
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    Why is the fabric of space and time always portrayed flat?

    The concept of the fabric of time and space is confusing to me. I understand that an object with large mass can warp it, but that only makes sense to me if the fabric had only two spatial dimensions (assuming no warps). The space-time fabric is always explained visually as a flat plane, but...
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