Timeline for Why do light and masses (like planets) follow different paths through curved space?
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| Jan 17, 2022 at 15:59 | comment | added | Wyck | I don't get this. What makes it "straight" then, if the path is different depending on your velocity? Please explain it to someone who is stuck in the misunderstanding that a road is the same shape regardless of the speed of the car driving on it. | |
| May 3, 2018 at 1:15 | comment | added | Chris♦ | @RalphBerger It's not a straight path through space, it's a straight path through spacetime. Even if two trajectories take the same path through space, if they are at two different velocities, those are two different paths in spacetime. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 21:32 | comment | added | Ralph Berger | So I guess the idea of a "straight path" through spacetime is wrong. If it were truly a straight path, the velocity would not impact the direction. So space is not really "curved" into straight paths that masses and light travel, it just imparts some sort of force that tends to curve the paths of mass and light? | |
| May 2, 2018 at 21:24 | history | answered | my2cts | CC BY-SA 4.0 |