Wonderful. Thank you. And, you've got me thinking about spacetime again! Grokking spacetime has always felt so difficult. The trampoline-bowling-ball is a good start, but I always found it frustrating, because I knew it wasn't "right", especially because it only gives a visualization of a single "plane" of the warp, whereas, in reality, the warp is in every direction surrounding the object. That is not a critique of your post at all: it's THE way to start to understand this concept. Just sharing me. Then I would try to visualize it "better" in my head, and my head would break, again :P Anyhow, I just asked ai about this, and got an amazing step-by-step breakdown of the problem of visualizing spacetime, along with step-by-step improvements of the visual model. It's still so hard to really get it, but I love this: "A new way to visualize general relativity": https://youtu.be/wrwgIjBUYVc?si=OsxedVbxP5cLoFJo
Good video. I considered using a 3D grid for the painting and the explanation. But, since this was more of an intro piece - the trampoline analogy seemed like the better way to go. None of the examples truly capture the weirdness, complexity, and beauty of relativity though.
At some point in the future, I'd like to tackle time dilation. I did start a new painting tackling wave-particle duality - all of it mind-bending stuff!
Wonderful. Thank you. And, you've got me thinking about spacetime again! Grokking spacetime has always felt so difficult. The trampoline-bowling-ball is a good start, but I always found it frustrating, because I knew it wasn't "right", especially because it only gives a visualization of a single "plane" of the warp, whereas, in reality, the warp is in every direction surrounding the object. That is not a critique of your post at all: it's THE way to start to understand this concept. Just sharing me. Then I would try to visualize it "better" in my head, and my head would break, again :P Anyhow, I just asked ai about this, and got an amazing step-by-step breakdown of the problem of visualizing spacetime, along with step-by-step improvements of the visual model. It's still so hard to really get it, but I love this: "A new way to visualize general relativity": https://youtu.be/wrwgIjBUYVc?si=OsxedVbxP5cLoFJo
Good video. I considered using a 3D grid for the painting and the explanation. But, since this was more of an intro piece - the trampoline analogy seemed like the better way to go. None of the examples truly capture the weirdness, complexity, and beauty of relativity though.
At some point in the future, I'd like to tackle time dilation. I did start a new painting tackling wave-particle duality - all of it mind-bending stuff!