Saturday, November 19, 2011

Einstein鈥檚 General Theory of Relativity explains gravity as a warp in the fourth dimension of spacetime. In re?

Einstein鈥檚 General Theory of Relativity explains gravity as a warp in the fourth dimension of spacetime. In recent years, others have described the other forces, electromagnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces, in similar ways, and the math seems to work. Does the math make the model true?|||No the math says that *all four* dimensions warp, not just the fourth.





The model is just a guess, and no one should believe it is "true" in any literal sense. The math merely maps from the "assumptions", to measurable / verifiable output. Math is steady logic, that has been proven time and again... and even has some known issues in some cases. So a theory is only as good as the assumptions you make, and the results you expect will be only as good as the care taken in "mapping".|||For the most part yes. Math generally doesn't lie. Although it is our own perception of reality that makes it true. If you have another theory then it can be proven within some dimension of reality if the math is correct. You can think of space as a blanket. If you place a large ball (the sun) in the center of the blanket it makes a dip. Then if you set a smaller ball on the same blanket it will roll towards the large one thus demonstrating the basic law of gravity. The larger the object the greater the gravitational pull

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