Harlequinne Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 If Space-Time is curved,where does the vacuum fit into all of this? Is it fair to say,that a ball 'rolling' around the Sun,must have been a fair amount of logical acrobatics on Einstein's part,but it still remains to be said that the warping could be in any direction,and not necessarily horizontal? So,which way does the Orbit take place? Where is the warping? Why not have Vertically Orbiting paths? Have you seen the experiment where two spheres are hung from a ceiling by steel thread? The balls seem to attract. Could it be then, that circle and sphere are indistinct? And that could also account for warpage! Affirmatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Your choice of coordinate system is arbitrary — we choose to look at the warping in the plane of an orbit because that's where we observe the effect, and the motion of an object defines a plane. It would be there if we chose another plane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Vose Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 There is no up or down in spacetime. Direction is omnipresent in spacetime because everything is relative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harlequinne Posted December 22, 2008 Author Share Posted December 22, 2008 I am working on another eighteen relativity's as we speak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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