Gravity Rubber Sheet Analogy

In space it will follow a straight line and go over any hole on the surface.

Gravity rubber sheet analogy.

The right hand side of this pair of drawings is closer to real life but still not accurate. Now physicists have tested this idea theoretically and experimentally and say it doesn t hold water. The rubber sheet or trampoline analogy for gravity is flawed because it is not fully three dimensional as a real star and planets would be. Experiments reveal that deformed rubber sheet is not like spacetime.

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. One of the most famous analogies in science is fundamentally flawed say physicists who have shown that a. The rubber sheet analogy for einstein s general relativity model of gravity is a popular way to visualize the effect mass has on the curvature of spacetime. My single group quasi experimental study with repeated measures was designed to assess the effectiveness of the rubber sheet analogy in teaching gravitational fields.

But a ball rolls on a surface because gravity is pulling it down. This state of affairs is almost entirely the result of one the most famous analogies in science.