Am 19.10.2015 um 09:18 schrieb scott:

> If gravity (or rather, mass) causes space to contract and get gobbled
> up, this must mean then that EM forces (and other equations?) must
> somehow be able to measure distances "outside" of this distorted and
> gobbled up space? There must be an external "real" space that is somehow
> related to the distored spacetime by the distribution of mass around.

No, there's no need for any "meta-space". In the vicinity of any mass,
EM forces still propagate according to Maxwell's wave equations through
whatever space is there at the very moment the wavefront traverses it.

Which is exactly why light appears to "bend" around massive objects.

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