: How does gravity cause time distortion ?

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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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I like to think of it (perhaps completely erroneously) as a parable to optics: Like diffraction isn’t a force, but curvature caused by differing density of media, gravity isn’t a force but curvature caused by differing density of spacetime.

The big difference is density of media usually has sharp defines, where spacetime density is made up of gradients.

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