20 questions linked to/from Why would spacetime curvature cause gravity?
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### How does “curved space” explain gravitational attraction? [duplicate]

They say that gravity is technically not a real force and that it's caused by objects traveling a straight path through curved space, and that space becomes curved by mass, giving the illusion of a ...
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### How does gravity truly work? [duplicate]

I Am only 12 years old and I'm constantly wondering and trying understand how gravity really works. On YouTube everyone always talks about objects wrapping space time around themselves and uses the ...
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### Gravity: Why Do things fall to Earth? [duplicate]

If gravity is in reality spacetime geometry why when I drop an object on the surface of the Earth does it fall to the ground? Does spacetime push it?
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### Questioning Einstein's view on gravity [duplicate]

Oke, so my mind is blown by Einsteins view on gravity, at least as far as I understand the basics and principles he based his views on. One of the first things that struck me was that most of his ...
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### General theory of relativity questions [duplicate]

I do not understand how this theory (the theory of general relativity) would work because gravity is what makes things heavy and weight is what bends things. All of the proof makes it hard to question ...
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### How does gravity cause acceleration? Also what means spacetime? [duplicate]

Since gravity only curves spacetime, how does it give kinetic energy to an object eg when an object falls to the ground. Since it only curves spacetime we shouldn't move towards it without kinetic ...
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### Reason for gravitational force [duplicate]

What is the reason for the existence of gravitational force between two bodies? Why do we say it as an attractive force? What makes any two objects to attract each other?
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### Can you derive new theories in physics by only looking at the math?

Can you develop new theories in physics by only looking at the maths from past physics concepts? Or does observation of physical reality or converging of physical concepts ALWAYS come first before the ...
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### From where does gravity get its energy to do work upon an object?

For an object or force to do work, it needs energy. But, from where does the gravitational force get the energy to do work upon, say, a falling object? The gravitational force is doing work upon the ...
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### Demonstration of General relativity

I've been trying to at least roughly understand gravitation in general relativity, but so far I haven't found a demonstration which I'd find satisfactory. The most common demonstration is ...
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### What is gravitational energy in general relativity?

In GR the curvature of spacetime "is gravity". This curvature is expressed via the Riemann tensor (or the Ricci tensor + Ricci scalar). The curvature is connected via the Einstein Field Equations with ...
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### Questions about spacetime curvature and gravity

These are some further important queries regarding the question here Why would spacetime curvature cause gravity? Q1. Explain the statement “Everything in spacetime moves at the speed of light”. Is ...
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### Why does two masses with energy attract each other?

I have heard that every mass attract another mass with a force directly proportional to the multiplication of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of distance between them, but newton ...