I learned this from The Sound of Science https://sos-cis.bandcamp.com/track/gravity. It's actually a great album. Unlike lots of educational music, this album is produced to an adult standard.
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This is the explanation as to why gravity is not a force
Matter bends spacetime. Spacetime tells matter how to move.
Using this logic, you can imagine that above a certain threshold, this can become a feedback loop. These locations are black holes, where enough matter located in a small enough volume of spacetime can create enough distortion to further force more matter into the same volume of spacetime.
How similar is this process to low/high air pressure systems?
Gravity is not instantaneous. It moves at the speed of light. And the "speed of light" can only be measured locally, because the time and space at a point are curved. The path of light corresponds to "null geodesics" in spacetime, and a body traveling along the geodesic experiences no time elapsed.
One mind-altering fact that I love is that there's no "acceleration due to gravity," once you're in free fall, until you hit the ground. Hop in a space ship with no windows and fly off straight in some direction. Turn off the engines and watch an accelerometer. It'll never read anything until you run into something.
You could fly past a planet, a massive star, even a black hole. Your path through space could be full of curves and loops but you'll never feel it. It's popular to think of those things as like crazy high G turns but they're not. You're just flying in a straight line through space time.
On the flip side, say someone knocks you out and puts you on that ship. You wake up and instead of being weightless, you can walk around the ship like normal on earth. Are you on earth or is the ship in space accelerating at a constant rate? Again, there's no way to tell. They are, physically, the same.
It’s popular to think of those things as like crazy high G turns but they’re not. You’re just flying in a straight line through space time.
Soooo... Interstellar was wrong with all the shaking of the camera?
Are you on earth or is the ship in space accelerating at a constant rate? Again, there’s no way to tell. They are, physically, the same.
In case of accelerating ship, I wonder what would happen in local frame once you hit/get really close to c. You'd get decelerated out of nowhere? Just as if you hit something?
Soooo… Interstellar was wrong with all the shaking of the camera?
All for the cinematography :) I will say that there's a small caveat in really extreme situations like close to a black hole. Spacetime gets so warped there that your head and your feet take very divergent paths through spacetime, enough to stretch you out and even break you apart at the atomic level. You'd definitely notice that...
In case of accelerating ship, I wonder what would happen in local frame once you hit/get really close to c. You’d get decelerated out of nowhere? Just as if you hit something?
Oh boy, special relativity is another fun one. So here's the thing: there's no "universal speed" that you're moving so you're never any closer to c no longer how long you accelerate for. To accelerate is to change your reference frame and there are no special reference frames.
Which is to say that any physical test you could run inside your ship will give you the same result, always. Accelerate for 13 billion years at any rate and check the the how fast light moves within your ship, the answer is always c.
This is where the name relativity comes in. You have to think in terms of relative speed. Your speed relative to earth will indeed advance closer and closer to c but never reach it. There's a bunch of really wild and crazy implications behind this.
Like that acceleration doesn't change the relative speeds of things uniformly. Keep accelerating at 1 meter per second per second and every second Earth's relative speed changes by less than 1m/s. And look up relativity of simultaneity, another consequence of special relativity. It's fascinating stuff.
This is where the name relativity comes in. You have to think in terms of relative speed. Your speed relative to earth will indeed advance closer and closer to c but never reach it. There’s a bunch of really wild and crazy implications behind this.
ah, right. In a ship travelling with c, for someone outside the ship, I turn on the lights and observe the light to travel with c. For that external observer the light from my lamp travels at the same speed as my ship
My mind was already bent! ;)
I once came across information that said natural forces never pull. They only push. If that's true then magnetism and gravity are even more confusing than I had initially estimated.
I once came across information that said natural forces never pull
That's absolute nonsense. Discard that thought and never repeat it again.
I'm not following the logic.
Massive things cause gravity. We experience this, of course, as the earth pulling us in towards its center of mass.
But if gravity pushes, then what is it that is getting on the other side of me and pushing me towards the earth?
Where is the physical origin of that pushing force?
How does it know to get on the far side of me and push me "down" toward the giant mass that is the earth?
None of it makes sense to me. I hope it's true and things are just that weird.
Instead of remaining parallel as we move through space in the arrow of time, we get closer to other mass because our paths bend, our clocks running at slightly different beats.
Time-bending is mind-bending stuff, man.
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