Eli5 How exactly does mass warp the fabric of the universe?

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I understand the concept of spacetime being warped (I’ve seen the rubber sheet analogy a thousand times), but does that mean that everything is *technically* always traveling in a straight—albeit warped—line?

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Asking why is beyond science and into philosophy. Nothing about general relativity explains “why”, just “how”. General relativity is a geometric theory. Whether it has to be is a different question.

We also know that quantum field theory and general relativity are fundamentally incompatible.

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