<font color="orange">Now, two magnets with opposite poles positioned with eachother will create a constant force of attraction(accelleration) if the are mounted stationary so they do not move. If there is accelleration, time must be altered....though it may be very minute. And time is not seperable from space, spacetime. So if time is altered, wouldnt spacetime be altered as well?</font><br /><br />re Wayne: what he means here is that being situated in a gravitational field is equivalent to being situated in an accelerating system (Einstein's famous elevator thought experiment) <br /><br />however that said, magnetic force is not gravitation and it is not equivalent to acceleration as in Einstein's thought experiment<br /><br />on the other hand static magnetic field is energy field of some sort and so it will curve space and time will slow down in it same as in any other energy field, that doesn't mean of course that the magnetic force field is due to space curvature, i.e., that it curves space and that curvature is then seen as magnetic force, that just doesn't follow, there is no physical (picturable) model how magnetism works like what Einstein invented for gravitation (curved spacetime)<br /><br />I think it was Faraday who was first intrigued by the relationship between gravitation and electricity/magnetism and tried to find some connection between the two phenomena and later on Einstein did try for some unification of these two (also on the basis of the curvature of spacetime) but without results<br /><br />vanDivX <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>