Originally Posted By: Bill6
I do not accept that space can be distorted.....

Neither 'space' nor 'time' possess any physical substance thus cannot be bent.

A total absence of matter cannot move relative to any total absence of matter.


Marcus Chown (Afterglow of Creation) says:

"...in Einstein's theory......space is malleable, it can be warped or curved in the presence of matter."

I think I need to know if you are saying that Einstein was wrong, or that the current interpretation of GR is wrong, or whether I have missed your point completely.


There never was nothing.