Why is gravity visualized by putting a heavy object on a flat plane, creating the curved shape, when space is 3D?

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Wouldn’t it curve and pull objects in all directions?

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Tacking onto this: in these visualizations “space” is bending. But what is that? It’s a vacuum, what is bending? What is the fabric of space time?

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