How do space-time warping and fabric of space-time explain gravity?
I see your confusion. Its a stretch from every day reality. My guess is that the problem is that you are thinking of space time itself has having a 3 dimensional movement. Of course if you exist within space you can move in three dimensions but outside of space (Which is impossible to phatom) movement up and down is not related to what you think as up and down. The analogy between a real fabric and spacetime (to my understanding) is that if a mass exist on the fabric (Within space time ) then the fabric will contort so that other masses on the fabric will moves towards the center. The analogy can only go so far because space time will not curve down like a piece of cloth….it will curve toward the massive object. Anything traveling in space will therefore be unable to travel in a straight line…a straight line will be redefined to mean a curved path to which an ending point exist in the center of the mass itself. Also keep in mind that in theory all objects with mass…even an atom w
