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May I suggest the following paragraph from the Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler: -
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There's no "pushing" involved, objects just follow geodesic paths (the curved space analog of straight lines in flat space). Also, it...
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"Fabric" is a metaphor at best. Spacetime isn't made of anything as far as we're aware. The curvature is purely geometric. We can apply...
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Shourya Tripathi posted the thread I What is the fabric of space-time made up of? in Special and General Relativity.Also why can't we apply laws of gravity to the quantum world? Can gravitational forces affect the subatomic particles such as protons...