This is nothing at all like the way general relativity works.
Gravity bowling ball rubber sheet.
The distortions in the rubber sheet representing the distortions in space and time.
The bowling ball has a greater mass so it also has a greater gravitational force.
It s often misused to show that mass warps spacetime 895.
This is a force diagram showing the two objects.
Teaching physics the next part of the original analogy explains a black hole.
If i use a bowling ball to deform a sheet and then role a golf ball along the sheet nearby the golf ball will move a bit towards the bowling ball because of the force of gravity around me not gravity in the simulation.
This shape can power through just about anything.
The typical rubber sheet bowling ball analogy to explain gravity visually in layman s terms always seems to be two space dimensions.
Both are curved by mass and everybody takes eucledean cartesian type flat graphs of say x and t as a matter of course.
The gravity of the situation.
It isn t just warped space that s involved it is warped space time.
A higher differential translates to more flare potential so every time the ball makes a rotation it exposes a fresh portion of coverstock material to the oil.
In the cartoon image of einstein s explanation of gravity a rubber sheet is pulled tight and a bowling ball is placed in the middle.
Why don t we use one dimension of space and the other of time.
The rubber sheet analogy only works even for the orbits if you assume that the orbiting object tends to want to roll down hill in the dip made by the bowling ball.
Let s look at the case of a falling bowling ball and basket ball.
The rubber sheet analogy fails massively in one area any demonstration of it involves gravity on earth.
The system has some qualitative features in common with gravity.
Since i read cosmos long ago i see the same analogy about the balls rolling on a rubber sheet used to explain how gravity works.
General relativity requires a curvature of space time not just space.
If an object like a tennis ball is then thrown onto the rubber sheet the tennis ball will gravitate towards the bowling ball.
I have never like it as an analogy either.
In the classic classroom rubber sheet demonstration the marble rolls toward the bowling ball because the earth s gravity causes it to roll down hill.
This comic refers to a common analogy used to explain how mass distorts space time a bowling ball resting on a sheet of rubber distorts the sheet due to its weight.
Hd is short for high density which lowers the rg and raises the differential of the weight block.