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07/22/2011 9:04 PM

The rubber sheet is not properly an analogy for gravity.It is a representation for the resulting gravital potential.

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07/22/2011 9:10 PM

Define: gravital potential

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07/22/2011 10:23 PM

Gravitational potential is defined as the energy(quantity of work) that is possible to obtain from or give to a unit mass when it moves to or is removed from the source of the gravitational force. Certainly wikipedia has a more complete presentation. Just an explanation:my post appearing as a question was a mistake. It was intended as an answer in The general Section , T........ The text was broken I do not know why !

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07/24/2011 7:01 PM

"It was intended as an answer in The general Section"

Are you saying that you did not intend to start a discussion?

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07/25/2011 11:13 AM

things that are questions in this universe are answers in the neighboring universe! I think he got mixed up where he was!

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Gravity Well?

07/25/2011 3:29 PM

Or, if you have a reader capable of reading Interleaved 2 of 5:

Or, is this more like it:

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07/22/2011 10:26 PM

It's been used for years by physicists as part of an analogy for gravity.

Your use of 'Properly' needs to be defined.

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