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> How can something that doesn't really exist such as space and time possibly be warped? Think of a surface of a ball: it locally looks flat, but globally is p
by xyzzyz 11y ago
> How can something that doesn't really exist such as space and time possibly be warped?
Think of a surface of a ball: it locally looks flat, but globally is pretty warped. This is an example of a warped 2-dimensional space. The spacetime is just 4-dimensional analogue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold