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I understand. May I restate that last comment? Is there an example of an object that we can observe that is not continually/constantly warping space time relative to another object?

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Is there an example of matter that we can observe that is not making a continual/constant change of position in space time? I guess in other words everything has a velocity, and is making a wake from distortion of space time?

Am I right in thinking that any bit of mass, eg. me, or my spoon, or a planet, can never not be moving? And also as the matter inside me changes to something else, re-assembles later, etc, for-"ever." So respective to that, space time is constantly distorting in it's path? From the...

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If the dimensions of the universe are finite/un-countably finite than there must be a spatial center. If not, than the dimensions of the universe would be infinite.

If there was a center of the universe, unmoving, how fast would we (person on the Earth) be moving relative to it?

Nice good example, aluminum and lead. (I'll be more careful also with my use of space and volume.) There must actually be space all over the place inside a mass, being warped by all the matter in there and making gravities pulling every which way relative to the relationship of the matter...

I don't see how, but the sea sponge is a bad example because there are too many preconceptions about its structure. So put the sea sponge aside and use a cubic foot of solid wood instead. If the cubic foot of solid wood and cubit foot of lead are both tethered off the space shuttle, there...

I'm coming from the premise that where there is matter, there is not space, and where there is space there is not matter. That's how I was approaching this. I wasn't thinking of an imaginary sense of "volume."

thanks MFB and IamLoser, now I'm engaged in this - http://www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft/theorist.html - and I will do it. I have not retained my math knowledge well enough some am starting from the beginning.

If you were doing an EVM outside the space shuttle, and tethered to the exterior of the shuttle was a cubic meter of lead and a cubic meter of a sea sponge, are you saying the cubic meter of lead wouldn't have less space within it than the sea sponge? Or if it was a cubic meter of lead vs. a...

so irrespective of how you look at space relative to the neutron or electron - is the tipping point for mass to create a black whole, the increase in its density, or the decrease in the space within the mass? If it was the ladder, than that would be a constant right? - cause the makeup of...

Nice, thanks again Iam, Dave

Yes thanks. Those are all great and I understand it better now. I wasn't trying to work backwards from what a black hole was to how it is formed. I was just thinking intuitively. Just made up in my head from scratch. (One of my law professors would call this a thought experiment.) Eg., if...