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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Yes, absolutely it does, but I defy you to find a way to intuitively represent that.

Easier to drop a dimension and show a cannonball on a rubber sheet with marbles rolling around it.

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