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1 month agoIt is granular, yes. But it is presented in a very orderly fashion full of perspective and done in a really entertaining manner! I hardly felt the time passing until my stomach growled xD
It is granular, yes. But it is presented in a very orderly fashion full of perspective and done in a really entertaining manner! I hardly felt the time passing until my stomach growled xD
I think it’s easier if you imagine space/time like a flat plane that dips depending on how much mass the central object (like the sun for example) has. Earth circles around that dip much like your drain plug analogy. If the sun disappears, it still takes time for that dip to rise back up to a flat surface. That’s the speed of gravity.
As soon as space/time begins to flatten beneath the earth, its momentum begins to turn into a straight line, rather than an orbit.
“Will detonating this nuclear bomb set the atmosphere on fire?”
“Meh, probably not.”