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Wow, this illustration might be the first one ever to help me understand how space can be 'curved'. If you altered the space around the cube to reflect a linea
by tsunamifury 15y ago
Wow, this illustration might be the first one ever to help me understand how space can be 'curved'. If you altered the space around the cube to reflect a linear gravitational pull, you'd have a cube with streteched out points and a flat ocean within the curved bason of the cube face.
Correct me if I'm completely imagining things here, but is this how space is 'curved' by gravity? The disorted shape of the ocean and cube would reflect how the cube-planet felt to an observer within its gravitational pull.
- mactitan 15y agoI had the same thought. you see yourself at the bottom of a bowl with ridges above you yet you know the surface is flat. If you take away the gravity then there is no wicked climb, ergo no mountain: the world suddenly appears flat. I know little physics but I think you're right! If true then your insight is greater than the authors.