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Originally Posted by xelasnave
the space time grid bent in the correct manner... the grid bends to mass not around a mass as the ball and the blanket offers for example...it irritates me beyond belief the various representations of gravitational lensing that have been drawn with the ball and blanket dictating a stupid presentation of the matter.
alex
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Great call Alex - I couldn't agree more.
This is what I meant when I posted "Dragging the spacetime carpet INTO the cellar, furniture and all, and without effort...like water down a drain, taking the soap bubbles with it". A fast enough body, moving past this body will follow a curved pathway (Geodestic) which looks like a stright line from the bodies perspective, within the [curved but constant] metric but is looks bent or warped outside the gravitational infulence, in flat space [flat and constant metric].
Cheers
Mark