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What are the key differences between Einsteinian relativity and ordinary Newtonian relativity that would invite you to make such an analogy?
by cousin_it 10y ago
What are the key differences between Einsteinian relativity and ordinary Newtonian relativity that would invite you to make such an analogy?
- samirillian 10y agoYou mean the difference between space as a medium in which things sit as opposed to space as constituted but the objects that populate it? I would say the perspectivism implied by the latter.
- cousin_it 10y agoI'm not sure Einstein's theory says that, actually. The equations have solutions without any matter or electrical fields, yet where gravity twists itself into nontrivial shapes. It's more accurate to say that stuff can affect space and vice versa, not that space is defined by stuff.