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    Graduate Why does the space-time curvature analogy show orbits in all directions?

    Of course, thanks for helping me understand that and thanks again to everyone else! This thread can be closed if you do that here.
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    Graduate Why does the space-time curvature analogy show orbits in all directions?

    Wow thank you so much, I have a much better mental image of what's going on now. The pic that showed the grid all around the Earth with the lines bending/warping into the center area helped a lot so thanks for posting that "yenchin" and thanks to everyone else who replied...
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    Graduate Why does the space-time curvature analogy show orbits in all directions?

    Hello, I am new to the forum and have a question that has been bugging me for some time that I hope someone can help me with. In the following image is a typical example used in documentary's to try to show how Einstein's theory of relativity explains how mass effects time. Uselly they will...