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Asked by 552rdme39 to Adrian, Gaia, Jim, Scott, Vicky on 10 Mar 2016.
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Adrian Buzatu answered on 10 Mar 2016:
Every mass warps the fabric of space time. You have mass, so you do warp space time. The larger the mass, the larger the warp.
Mass tells space how to warp. Space tells mass how to move. So summarised Einsten’s general relativity Taylor, who coined the term black hole.
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Scott Lawrie answered on 10 Mar 2016:
Space isn’t a fixed thing. Gravity itself is the warping of space. Something trying to move in a straight line through space will be bent around because of the curved space near something big like a star or planet. That’s what gravity is: it’s not a ‘force’, really, it’s just the warping of space. A couple of weeks ago we felt space ripples from a pair of colliding black holes!
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Jim Barrett answered on 11 Mar 2016:
Anything that’s heavy will warp space-time (the fabric of time and space), even you warp it a little
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552rdme39 commented on :
is it possible to warp time and not space
Scott commented on :
Good question! According to relativity, space and time are not separate things: they are parts of one whole called spacetime. So if you warp space you also warp time. For example if you’re moving very fast your time slows down and your space shrinks! You can’t have one or the other.
Adrian commented on :
What means warped time? Space-time are together. When you travel fast, time goes slower. Is this what you mean by warped time?