I just can’t put my head around the fact that gravity isn’t just a force
EDIT : I now get how it gets stretched and how it’s comparable to putting a ball on a stretchy piece of fabric and everything but why is *gravity* comparable to that. I guess my new question is what is gravity ? 🙂 and how can weight affect it ?
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Think of space and time as the same thing.
Space is the dimensions of up and down, left and right, backwards and forwards.
Time is past to future.
So imagine all these dimensions. When something with mass is placed in spacetime it distorts it as spacetime wraps around it, the bigger the mass the greater the warp.
The sensation of weight is the distortion of spacetime as two things with mass are pushed together by the distortion (aka gravity).
The warping of time is just another effect of gravity.
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