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If there's nothing in empty space, then how does it get warped by gravity?
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If there's nothing in empty space, then how does it get warped by gravity?
(October 13, 2016 at 1:41 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:
(October 13, 2016 at 1:29 pm)KUSA Wrote: Tell me what a field is. I don't want an explanation of what it does but rather what it actually is.

This particular one (Higgs field) I think to be a cuboctahedral lattice aka a vector equilibrium.

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That's nice that we know the shape of it but what exactly is it?
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RE: If there's nothing in empty space, then how does it get warped by gravity?
(October 13, 2016 at 1:59 pm)KUSA Wrote: That's nice that we know the shape of it but what exactly is it?
The stretchy 3d "fabric" of space-time. The rest mass/energy of "empty space".
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Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
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