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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 15, 2017 at 9:44 pm
photons might not experience the flow of time during their existence . . .
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RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved?
June 16, 2017 at 1:35 am
Galaxies are located on the 4 Dim surface of the universe (not within), ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang#/...o_WMAP.jpg
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.
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RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved?
June 16, 2017 at 2:16 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. Tongue ?

That depends on the definition I'd say but yes, I think that's a fair statement.
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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.   Tongue  ?

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