What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved?

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What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved?

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RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved?

June 16, 2017 at 9:46 am

(June 15, 2017 at 7:41 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(June 14, 2017 at 3:10 pm)Jehanne Wrote: And, of course, an object whose light is 10 billions years old is not 10 billion light years away. The Universe, even though it is 13.8 billion years old, has a radius of around 48.5 billion light years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe

But I believe the path the light took is by definition 10 billion light years long. ?

That is true -- it would be 'ct'.

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What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Rhondazvous - June 5, 2017 at 10:06 am

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