Curved space

[miriam_e]

It's 3:30am and my mind keeps ticking over the same annoying thing. I keep trying to think of some way to see gravity as curved space without it collapsing into contradictions. I can see the attraction of the idea. It almost looks like you can eliminate gravity as a force and just see it as geometry. Also, I'm very aware of the fact that a lot of

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[ext_5754633]

I think ‘flat’ is only in relation to the gravitational vortex acting on it. We are falling in the vortex of the earth, flat is where we stand, obstructed by the solid. The moon is falling into the vortex of earth; “flat” is the rotational axis. You moving something only changes the trajectory of the object, not the vortex into which it falls.
The International Space station orbit appears to be a sine wave on a map because it does not orbit on the “flat” of the earth rotation.
Gravity or space time is prone to eddies and flow similar to water or air; fluid dynamics.
Black holes appear to be mass gathering mass. They create vortexes and possibly break the surface tension of space time creating a worm hole or possibly a new universe.

This is how I understand things. I don’t know if or how it might affect your thinking. I got here from pondering, not teaching..

Enjoy.