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AlisonArulia
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Another dumb question, sorry.
I am trying to get my head around if there is some force (Gravity) that acts like an elastic band, pulling everything towards everything else – the more mass a thing has the stronger the elastic band.
Or is it
Gravity doesn’t exist. What happens is that everything bends space/time around it causing everything else to follow the bends formed around. The more mass something the stronger the bends.
Eg. (even though the results are basically the same)
Gravity exists – A snowflake is pulled down downs the Earth and the Earth is pull up toward the snowflake. As the Earth has more mass than the flake, the flake moves more than the Earth does.
Gravity doesn’t exist – Both the Earth and a snowflake bend space/time around themselves. As the Earth has more mass than the flake, the flake follows the bends created by the earth’s mass more then the Earth follows the bends created by the flake.
Either way – Both the flake and Earth are moving and it is not the movement that matters but the acceleration of the flake from one point (relative to another) that is happening rather than movement.
"or" is all of the above wrong
Please help me to understand this
Thank you
Alison
I am trying to get my head around if there is some force (Gravity) that acts like an elastic band, pulling everything towards everything else – the more mass a thing has the stronger the elastic band.
Or is it
Gravity doesn’t exist. What happens is that everything bends space/time around it causing everything else to follow the bends formed around. The more mass something the stronger the bends.
Eg. (even though the results are basically the same)
Gravity exists – A snowflake is pulled down downs the Earth and the Earth is pull up toward the snowflake. As the Earth has more mass than the flake, the flake moves more than the Earth does.
Gravity doesn’t exist – Both the Earth and a snowflake bend space/time around themselves. As the Earth has more mass than the flake, the flake follows the bends created by the earth’s mass more then the Earth follows the bends created by the flake.
Either way – Both the flake and Earth are moving and it is not the movement that matters but the acceleration of the flake from one point (relative to another) that is happening rather than movement.
"or" is all of the above wrong
Please help me to understand this
Thank you
Alison