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Special and General Ralativity, Cosmology

Is there an attribute of spacetime that determines the curvature that will be caused by a specific mass thus resulting to the corresponding gravity? In other words: can there be "harder" or "softer" regions of spacetime where the same mass will bend spacetime less or more thus resulting to less...

I 'm no physicist, but a software engineer who is trying to understand how the universe works. I hope you can tolerate my naive questions and if possible, bother to answer some of them!