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If gravity is caused from the bend in space time from a large mass, why do all objects fall towards earths center and not strait down to below earth? Sorry i am not an expert in any fields just trying to understand and study relativity, also i'm fairly new to the whole bending of space and time and do not truly understand how it works. Any help would be appreciated, thanks ahead of time.

Not everyone understood my question so, Picture earth bending space time right, and gravity pulls the objects to the center of the planet, why don't objects when falling pull to the space warp instead of the earth center? How is it that at the bottom of the earth objects fall upwards toward earth and not down to the space warp? I guess what i don't fully understand is wether gravity is created by the space warp or by Earth itself and the space warp is a result from the earths gravity. – C.Julch

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To answer your question about falling objects to the center instead of straigt think about the following:

If you think about the Earth as a whole (rather than just the part you can see around you) and think about how two objects dropped from a height on opposite sides of the planet would behave, then you may be better able to understand the quote.

In the case of these two objects, dropped on opposites sides of the Earth, they would each move toward the center of the Earth, and therefore towards one another.

Similarly, an object dropped in Europe would move at an angle to one dropped in North America, since both are headed toward the center of the Earth.

Essentially, every dropped object is moving toward the center of the big sphere we live on, and any two of them are going move at an angle to one another as they fall - and the farther apart they are, the easier it will be to see that angle.

https://www.quora.com/Naturalists-what-do-you-understand-by-this-heavy-bodies-moving-towards-the-earth-do-not-parallel-but-so-as-to-make-equal-angles

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The problem is that the images that you have seen about spacetime bending depict a two dimensional 'fabric'. Try picturing it in three dimensions and it would be easier to understand.

If you are still not able to visualise then see: https://www.dropbox.com/s/h6h5pfe37stxdrv/Photo%2002-06-16%2C%2022%2028%2003.jpg?dl=0

Bharath Radhakrishnan
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