Gravity can be treated as a force (mass attracts mass), or as a curved field (mass curves space-time in its vicinity). Mathematically equivalent, but fundamentally different in operation.
Look at it this way...you move in a straight line from point a to point b. It takes you some time, t.
Now there's a large mass between point a and point b. The mass curves space, so you think you traveled a straight line and it took some time, t. But to someone watching you from outside your ship and the mass, you would have travelled in an arc bent towards the mass and the distance travelled would have appeared greater, and the time it took you would have seemed longer to that observer. The mass "warped" space and time.
Not quite...you can view gravity as a force that pulls things, or as a warp in space so the what we think are moving in straight lines but are actually being bent towards objects with mass...
I have often pondered the significance of the 5 7 5 on the Horror Haiku homepage, and it just hit me that that's the number of syllables in each line...🤦♂️
Gravitational acceleration has been shown to be the equivalent of moving. So if the acceleration due to gravity is close enough to the speed of light you begin to see relativistic effects such as time dilation, mass expansion, and length contraction.
Think the film "Interstellar" on the planet close to the black hole.
It's true—I'm 73, and in real life, I'm often dismissed. People have told me the world has changed since I was young. I was born just six years after World War II ended—imagine all the history I've witnessed. I've been writing poetry since third grade. But now, I'm told I'm no longer relevant.
A grave situation.
Not grounded , but aloft;
Fly off into space, gravity displaced.
Ah, your word play is stellar, as always🖤
The heaviest heaviness
pulling me down, dragging me down -
down low to the lowest low
Sorry you’re so HEavy, maybe I can HElp🖤
Doctor says I could lose a few pounds but apart from that it's just gravity doing its thing
It is not our age
That shrinks our frames, hooks us down,
But a force made law
Love this! The unbearable heaviness of being🖤
Soaring down, free fall
You pull me close, like a hug
Too much force! I’m crushed
Oo I love the shift from free and friendly sounding to murderous. It’s very chilling🖤
A field or a force?
Mathematically one,
It's a matter thing...
😁
Ok… you might need to explain this one to me🤦♀️ Math is my arch nemesis.
Gravity can be treated as a force (mass attracts mass), or as a curved field (mass curves space-time in its vicinity). Mathematically equivalent, but fundamentally different in operation.
Ah, ok, like us being stuck to the planet vs. an object in orbit?
Look at it this way...you move in a straight line from point a to point b. It takes you some time, t.
Now there's a large mass between point a and point b. The mass curves space, so you think you traveled a straight line and it took some time, t. But to someone watching you from outside your ship and the mass, you would have travelled in an arc bent towards the mass and the distance travelled would have appeared greater, and the time it took you would have seemed longer to that observer. The mass "warped" space and time.
Weird, right?
Physics is so loony. BUT it does make sense that you wouldn’t necessarily perceive your own trajectory as warped, even if you knew it was. I think…
Well, the point of a warped field approach is you don't perceive it unless it's very, very large.
Not quite...you can view gravity as a force that pulls things, or as a warp in space so the what we think are moving in straight lines but are actually being bent towards objects with mass...
Upwards out the shaft
The hatch blown open to space
Tetherless, I drift
Oh man, this is such a terrifying thought 🖤
Longing to break free
I spring with all my energy
but alas; I'm stuck.
Love this! If only our will power could overcome physics🖤
If gravity fails,
We'll all get the chance to know,
What flying feels like... 😎
Would be so cool 😎
Of course, there'd be no way to get back down again. But the flying part would definitely be fun for a while! Haha... 😎
Until hunger set in…
That's true. Even if you took a sandwich up there, most of it would probably just float away. Nooooo... 😎
I have often pondered the significance of the 5 7 5 on the Horror Haiku homepage, and it just hit me that that's the number of syllables in each line...🤦♂️
Boy, do I feel dumb...😂
You’re thinking I’m more clever than I am and hiding things. But no😂
Accelerator.
It can dilate time itself
If it's large enough...
I kind of get this one😂 I know that difference in a gravitational *something* makes time so weird things😅
Gravitational acceleration has been shown to be the equivalent of moving. So if the acceleration due to gravity is close enough to the speed of light you begin to see relativistic effects such as time dilation, mass expansion, and length contraction.
Think the film "Interstellar" on the planet close to the black hole.
the GRAVITY of being obsolete
________
Wisdom's weight crashes down
Experience floats away
Our gravity fails
.
Decades of knowledge
Lighter than youth's fresh ideas
Nothing grounds us now
.
Boardroom table cold
As space between distant stars
We're drifting apart
.
Mentees now leaders
Their eyes avoid our presence
Unbearable void
.
Achievements gathering dust
Like comets' tails forgotten
In vast corporate space
.
Time's spiral galaxy
Leaves us on the outer edge
Spinning out of sync
.
Voices once valued
Now echo in empty halls
It's cold way up here
.
History discarded
Like space junk orbiting Earth
No one looks back now
.
Gravity of age
Pulls us down while youth ascends
Unbalanced cosmos
.
Final contribution
A meteor's last bright flare
Before fading out
Wow, brutal and brilliant!
It's true—I'm 73, and in real life, I'm often dismissed. People have told me the world has changed since I was young. I was born just six years after World War II ended—imagine all the history I've witnessed. I've been writing poetry since third grade. But now, I'm told I'm no longer relevant.
People can be so closed minded. I’m sorry you have to go through that😔