My attempts to envision how gravity curves space rather than directly yanking objects has led me to what I am sure must be an error, but I'm unable to get past it.

When I try to picture space getting curved, I imagine the space as a thing which gets pulled into an object, dragging along whatever smaller objects are embedded in the space.

My brain then insists that if space is being pulled into an object, it needs to come out somewhere else, which seems incongruent with observation.

Anyone have more success at envisioning the warping of space?

Since my imagination is lacking i will contribute only what i know.

The space does indeed come out somewhere else.

What you thought were smelly gases expelled from your rear due to the digestion of food, are in fact, space that is warped by the presence of our planet.

If I am correct in assuming yoy mean where does the space get bent into, rather than where it goes, it is simply bent into a further dimension that is imperceptible to us...if you read flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott and the extrapolate the principle up through the next dimension you should be able to atleast grasp the idea..

Maybe time calls a cab for it?

Is curvature an absolute property or a relative property?

To the emergency room.

General relativity tells us that gravity is the curvature of space-time, rather than just the curvature of space.

Imagine an object in zero gravity (ie a non-curved space-time). If the object does not have any outside forces acting upon it, the object will not move in space, but the object is still moving in space-time because it cannot help moving in time.



In a curved space-time, when an object with no outside forces acting upon it (ie an object in free-fall) moves through time, it is also moving through space.

There must be an answer somewhere already; physics, space. I have not studies those and still feel the answer is already somewhere.

I have read it might not be the space that is bendining. Is it the time then? Possibly, as it is easily relative. or just the gravity influencing an object? Possibly, but I am not aware there is a calculation. I am aware that there is an impressive wonder, that actually is the most impressive thing, imo. The space curving would be second to that.

If the space does bend, maybe it has something to do with the black holes, also. But all in all, I think there is already enough information to solve this simple looking case.

But as this is not my problem, it is not a problem to me at all. Just wondering why the wonder?

If it's true that every action results in an equal and opposite reaction, then does it follow that there will be a sort of recoil of spacetime when an object is removed from the picture?

Ok this conversation got me thinking:

At the big bang there must have been much light created and released. This light is still traveling away from the big bang through spacetime as there isn't necessarily anything to stop it from propagating. Could we then say that light creates spacetime as we know it? since everything else that hasn't been touched by the light yet is considered to be "elsewhere" which is a point that may not transfer information to our universe, it becomes somewhat clear to me that (the universe) is simply everything that was created by the light and matter resulting from the big bang, including spacetime itself.