Fabric bespeaks of a planar concept. I cannot imagine forces in space/time being uniplanar.
I have long wondered what the output would be if biblical creation principles were digitized and run through the modelling programs.
You would probably end up with the Worlds in Collision scenario.
Einstein represented it as a planar concept for us mere mortals, so that we would be able to picture his gifted vision.
There’s a passage in Special Relativity which then asks the reader to wrap the fabric around an object with mass and imagine the grids extending outward omni directionally.
I can almost picture that, but not quite.
I guess it’s kinda like dust particles floating in water, with water being space-time. And the closer you get to the particle the more dense the water is.
Even though he wrote it for mortal man, it’s still over my head. But there are those who have studied it, and it makes sense to them.
And there is no doubt Einstein was explaining the EFFECT of gravity on mass and space-time, not the causal agent. It has a most peculiar behavior, linked to mass, bypassing time...but not space.
It will take another Einstein to figure that out. Let’s hope he pops up before we’re dead.
But I wish I know even the basics.