{"id":33338,"date":"2025-05-23T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=33338"},"modified":"2025-05-22T22:41:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:41:47","slug":"stop-the-presses-gravity-is-a-force-and-space-is-not-curved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/stop-the-presses-gravity-is-a-force-and-space-is-not-curved\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the Presses.\u00a0 Gravity is a Force and Space is not Curved."},"content":{"rendered":"

So I get most of my physics from YouTube and the latest news flash<\/a> is that Einstein\u2019s belief that mass warps space-time may be put aside for a theory where gravity is a force again and space-time isn\u2019t curved.\u00a0 In fact, maybe it\u2019s not space-time anymore just space and time.<\/p>\n

Uh, okay.\u00a0 Personally, I never understood why (or how) space could be curved.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t see why light couldn\u2019t just be affected by gravity the same as everything else.\u00a0 I mean what does it mean to say space is curved?\u00a0 Space, per se, is nothing.\u00a0 It is the lack of something and all it has is location so how can a bit of nothing be curved?\u00a0 Now the fact that matter and even light can be deflected in their motion through space makes sense.\u00a0 We can see it all the time with magnets and projectiles in a gravity field.\u00a0 It\u2019s Newton\u2019s law extended by all the other theories that identify the other forces; electromagnetic, weak and strong nuclear forces.\u00a0 So why say space is curved?\u00a0 According to the report (and I\u2019m not saying I can fathom this) this new way of looking at gravity also eliminates the current paradox between quantum theory and Einstein\u2019s conception of gravity.\u00a0 In your face Albert!<\/p>\n

Now to be fair to Professor Einstein later on he had been thinking about a similar system he called Teleparallel Gravity.\u00a0 So maybe all of this is just more reviewing old ideas because nothing new has been discovered.\u00a0 But I think it makes sense to bring the best minds to bear on these fundamental questions.\u00a0 Of course, if there\u2019s no space-time then all of the science fiction that used the term becomes dated and passe.\u00a0 Such is life.<\/p>\n

Now, if there is no warping of space does that mean Black Holes can\u2019t tear a hole in it?\u00a0 Is there no such thing as a singularity?\u00a0 Are there no worm holes and no way to go from one universe to another?\u00a0 Next thing you know they\u2019ll be telling me that the speed of light isn\u2019t the fastest speed possible and faster-than-light travel is perfectly achievable if only I can buy enough dynamite from the ACME company and strap it to the back of my rocket sled.<\/p>\n

Okay, now the inertialess drives of Doc Smith\u2019s Skylark and Lensman series are science again and jungle worlds with naked red-haired amazon warrior women who can become part of the federation are totally realistic again.\u00a0 I just hope that the ultra-intelligent but hopelessly-evil amoeboid Eddorians don\u2019t find out about this quantum gravity thing before the Arisians do, so we will still have a chance to perfect a way to destroy Ploor with an inertialess planet that we\u2019ve somehow translated from another dimension and then restored its inertia in time to use it as an irresistible planet wrecker.\u00a0 Oh wait, I just said there are no alternate dimensions.<\/p>\n

Okay, forget that last bit.\u00a0 But otherwise, I\u2019m completely on board with this new quantum gravity\/non-curved space rigamarole.\u00a0 Let\u2019s just try and give it a cooler name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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