Re: Gravitational Confusion

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Posted by ronron on December 31, 19100 at 01:29:52:

In Reply to: Re: Gravitational Confusion posted by Brian on December 28, 19100 at 13:09:35:

Your question was "can spacetime bend?" yes, it
does bend, in relation to the mass energy local
to it.

but a geodesic would not be "pulled toward a planet."
a geodesic is curved path equivalent of a straight
line in Euclidean geometry.

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