|From: Martegan||17/06/00 2:07:14| |Subject: How does mass warp
space?||post id: 85991| I've seen the diagrams of a bowling ball
creating a depression on a rubber sheet as a description of mass
warping space. Problem is, it would seem that the very thing
causing this depression is gravity itself (turn the diagram up-
side-down and the depression disappears pretty quickly, lol). I
understand that this is only meant as a reduced-dimensional
illustration of what the boffins believe is actually happening,
but it makes me wonder: The force which causes the warping of
the rubber sheet is gravity. What causes the warping of space?
How does mass warp space? PS, I love this forum. Yez are all
legends :-) |From: Dr. Ed G (Avatar)||17/06/00 2:55:30|
|Subject: re: How does mass warp space?||post id: 85999|
|Gravity causes the warping of space...| Think of an observer
situated above the plane of the solar system watching an
unpowered spaceship travelling from one side of the solar system
to the other and travelling just cl