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Ok I don't know much about physics but have read a tiny bit for fun.
Now einsteins theory that say for example the Earth is bending space and that is why things go toward it.
Two analogies I have heard about this one simple one is if you take a sheet stretch it taught but then put a heavy marble in the middle anything you put on the sheet will than move toward the center marble.
Another example was of how forces do not exist and are something that is a part a higher demention. The example was of flatlanders on a sheet of paper supposedly if you fold and crumple this paper the flatlander would experience these folds and tears as invisible forces.
But what I do not understand is how can the gravity force be bending of space when gravity is required for those bends and curves to be detectable as a force. So if for example we take those flatlanders on the bent sheet into space with no gravity the "force" disappears. Anything can be bent in any possible way but take away gravity and it will have no effect on the direction something on this bent sheet or peace of paper or anything will want to move.
Is it maybe because the distant between two points increases in one direction and decreases in another due to the bending of space which causes you to take more time to get from one place to another is felt simply as a force by us and maybe we feel it as a force and see it as a force because all matter (like light) takes the easiest path to get somewhere. Which would be if the bent space does not change the shortest path.
Or maybe does the bent space change that space turning it into a proverbial glass that is harder to move through. (just like the light wants to spend least time in the hard to move through glass matter does the same avoiding whatever space is hardest to move through which has been effected by other matter bending it/ changing it in some other way. Like the Earth being that giant marble on the sheet that is space. Since there is no gravity pulling it down towards the marble of the sheet it is instead that either the space is curved in a way that makes the distance in a direction toward the center of the Earth less than the distance going away from the center of the Earth or it distorts the space in some other way to make travel toward the Earth easier than away from it and matter then like light follows the fastest path.
Hey maybe does it change space by a large mass of matter displaces space increaseing the density (it is space so there is no density) so I geuss "thickness" of space around it which makes it harder to move through this also would explain why gravity gets weaker the further you move away. Put that marble in pudding the pudding it displaces will mostly be right around the edge of it becoming less and less thick as you move away from it.
Dylan Martinelli
Now einsteins theory that say for example the Earth is bending space and that is why things go toward it.
Two analogies I have heard about this one simple one is if you take a sheet stretch it taught but then put a heavy marble in the middle anything you put on the sheet will than move toward the center marble.
Another example was of how forces do not exist and are something that is a part a higher demention. The example was of flatlanders on a sheet of paper supposedly if you fold and crumple this paper the flatlander would experience these folds and tears as invisible forces.
But what I do not understand is how can the gravity force be bending of space when gravity is required for those bends and curves to be detectable as a force. So if for example we take those flatlanders on the bent sheet into space with no gravity the "force" disappears. Anything can be bent in any possible way but take away gravity and it will have no effect on the direction something on this bent sheet or peace of paper or anything will want to move.
Is it maybe because the distant between two points increases in one direction and decreases in another due to the bending of space which causes you to take more time to get from one place to another is felt simply as a force by us and maybe we feel it as a force and see it as a force because all matter (like light) takes the easiest path to get somewhere. Which would be if the bent space does not change the shortest path.
Or maybe does the bent space change that space turning it into a proverbial glass that is harder to move through. (just like the light wants to spend least time in the hard to move through glass matter does the same avoiding whatever space is hardest to move through which has been effected by other matter bending it/ changing it in some other way. Like the Earth being that giant marble on the sheet that is space. Since there is no gravity pulling it down towards the marble of the sheet it is instead that either the space is curved in a way that makes the distance in a direction toward the center of the Earth less than the distance going away from the center of the Earth or it distorts the space in some other way to make travel toward the Earth easier than away from it and matter then like light follows the fastest path.
Hey maybe does it change space by a large mass of matter displaces space increaseing the density (it is space so there is no density) so I geuss "thickness" of space around it which makes it harder to move through this also would explain why gravity gets weaker the further you move away. Put that marble in pudding the pudding it displaces will mostly be right around the edge of it becoming less and less thick as you move away from it.
Dylan Martinelli