Warped Space-Time

[stevenjames32]

That's the usual explanation of the effect of mass. But that's not Einstein's explanation.
In his 1952 article, Relativity and the Problem of Space, appended to his 1920 book,
Relativity: The Special and General Theory, he writes, "Space-time does not claim existence
on its own, but only as a structural quality of the [gravitational - added by me] field. Thus,
we can conclude that Einstein saw time-space as a field generated by matter. The view of
matter warping space-time doesn't do justice to general relativity, to gravity, or to matter.

 

[IG2007]

I don't exactly get your point here.

If you meant to say that space-time is a gigantic field generated by matter, that is indeed true. But why would that lead to the dissolution of the idea that matter warps space-time?

 

[Catastrophe]

Is this of interest?

VI-47.pdf (caltech.edu)

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[Atlan0001]

Cheez, what a space-time curvature exists in the totaled up background non-local in every direction radial out made up of, but exactly opposed to, all foreground locals!

 

[stevenjames32]

Do magnets warp magnetic fields, or do they generate them?
There is not one gigantic space-time field, according to A.E. Every piece of matter, no small, is able to generate the space(-time) required for it to exist.

 

[Catastrophe]

Electric charges and magnets do indeed "distort space," but this happens on a couple of levels. ... Since matter carries energy (via Einstein's famous relation that energy is mass times the speed of light squared), such objects will have a gravitational field and so they will distort space-time.14 Dec 1998

Do electric charges and magnets distort space, in the way that ...


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[Catastrophe]

I agree with that, but it does not include every Tom, Dick and Harry pseudomodel.

I believe that you would agree.

Cat

 

[stevenjames32]

I think most scientists will agree that GR plays a major role in Cosmology.
I've posted a reference showing that Einstein explained matter as the source for space-time, an important view that is not often understood.
Anyone who wants a reference for matter generating the space it needs to exist should be able to know how to use a search engine.
If you don't agree with Einstein's statements, take it up with him.
If you think there is one large space-time field for the universe, that would require an unbelievable amount of matter at its center. If you think there is such a center, take it up with the moderator.
Don't bother to reply, as I am leaving this forum.

 

[COLGeek]

This thread has runs it course. Thank you to all who contributed.