Originally Posted By: redewenur
All I can tell you is that, as I understand it, the mass of the Earth defines the geometry of local spacetime.


Someone please to splain to me what time has to do with gravity?

I see this term "spacetime" thrown about all the time like you folks understand it.

Care to couch an explanation in a way that even I can understand it?

And no, not with the bowling ball on a trampoline analogy, that's all that is, an analogy, you folks take that way too literally.

And when I say "in a way that even I can understand" I really mean in a way that shows me YOU understand it.

What? I've a drawing I want here. How I do that?