Gravity operates as a repulsive force at a distance and attractive near it... How would this work...
The Rubber sheet model is WRONG.
Well or not precise..
Imagine the rubber sheet stretched over an above ground pool with NO air space between the sheet and the water and sealed perfectly along the edge...
The Drop a bowling ball in there to represent the sun... Marbles will continue to orbit around it... but look at the edge of the pool.... notice anything... it is is RAISED... ie REPLUSIVE at a distance!
Morons who think up the gravity as heavy ball on a rubber sheet forgot about the other side of deformation, the repulsive part..
I never heard the heavy ball thing before. But there is a lot of stuff about gravity actually pushing rather than pulling. It’s kinda based on something called “the ether”, an old term about space. And it does explain why light slows down when passing through water and then speeds up again once it passes through.
I imagine an infinite number of rope tows intersecting at every point in the universe. Energy grabs onto one of these and never goes as fast as the rope tow, but loses its grip a bit when passing through some items. And when a large mass blocks the rope tow, it reduces the speed further, allowing more grip on the rope tow going in exactly the opposite direction. When in stasis, the energy has an equal grip on all the rope tows passing through all the points it comes into contact with.
I think a truer understanding of gravity and how to manipulate and use it is the key to serious space travel.
Supposedly nothing can move faster than the speed of light but gravity can overcome it. In the case of black holes I begin to wonder if there is a speed of gravity.
Sure, but that's because your demonstration is contained within a finite structure sitting atop a fluid medium. That said, there are the things we know about gravity which can then be used to determine some of its other properties.
But only the Almighty knows how gravity or magnetism or other forces really work. At least for now...
And the third dimension. It is only a two dimensional, half-arsed representation of how a mass effects another mass.