To: Dead Corpse
“Gravity stretches and compresses space/time”
No, matter distorts spacetime (really I think it’s just the time component that is distorted, because distorting space is nonsensical), and that distortion creates the effect we call “gravity”.
To: Boogieman
Prevailing theory until quantum gravity matures or an actual “graviton” is discovered...
71 posted on
07/26/2023 1:22:52 PM PDT by
Dead Corpse
(A Psalm in napalm...)
To: Boogieman
time distortion itself cannot explain gravity.
a simple test is to think about what direction gravity is going. if it has a direction there is also a space distortion, because there is no physical direction for time.
spacetime seems like pretty flimsy stuff it seems to me.
84 posted on
07/26/2023 2:36:14 PM PDT by
wafflehouse
("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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