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Can somebody explain to me how my "internal" imagination of gravity is wrong? For some reason I started imagining it as a "consequence" of different space densi
by Double_a_92 7y ago
Can somebody explain to me how my "internal" imagination of gravity is wrong? For some reason I started imagining it as a "consequence" of different space densities. I.e. if some particle randomly moves a bit, it tends to automatically move towards where there is "more" space to be in.
Imagine a piece of paper with many small dots on, symbolising places where a particle could be. If a particle randomly jumps to neighbouring dots wouldn't it eventually get trapped in areas where there are a lot of dots? (Also somehow the presence of particles increases the amount of dots?)
- chousuke 7y agoI think that intuition would imply that objects could randomly escape even black holes, even if the sequence of random jumps required would be very unlikely. Also it would mean that matter somehow affects the distribution of those dots. If the transition between dots is a quantum event, it sort of sounds like what imagined quantum gravity could look like, but I have no idea how you'd translate the thought experiment into actual maths.