Personally I think it's easier to tell people to stop thinking of gravity as a particle or wave - it's not like a beam of light or radio wave.
Think of the space/time as the blanket the universe is wrapped in. If that blanket is stretched out like a trampoline, every object on it or moving around on it is causing flexing and ripples. That's gravity.
When a girl bounces off a trampoline, the specific instance of her gravity is gone but the ripples from that instance continue on for some time until everything "settles".
But apparently the goo that is space/time really does not tolerate anything going faster than the speed of light for some reason. Doesn't mean things aren't trying to go faster than that, they just cannot achieve it.
Ha! But what if it was the opposite and we are simply a cycle down the road of big bang/big crunch/big bang/big crunch/big bang where the speed of light used to be faster but is slowing each cycle because of lost mass/energy.
What if the speed of light was slightly faster or slightly slower, how would it affect the development/entropy of the universe?
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Personally I think it's easier to tell people to stop thinking of gravity as a particle or wave - it's not like a beam of light or radio wave.
Think of the space/time as the blanket the universe is wrapped in. If that blanket is stretched out like a trampoline, every object on it or moving around on it is causing flexing and ripples. That's gravity.
When a girl bounces off a trampoline, the specific instance of her gravity is gone but the ripples from that instance continue on for some time until everything "settles".
But apparently the goo that is space/time really does not tolerate anything going faster than the speed of light for some reason. Doesn't mean things aren't trying to go faster than that, they just cannot achieve it.
Our reality was build on a 299 792 458 m / s processor. Newer realities are much faster.
Ha! But what if it was the opposite and we are simply a cycle down the road of big bang/big crunch/big bang/big crunch/big bang where the speed of light used to be faster but is slowing each cycle because of lost mass/energy.
What if the speed of light was slightly faster or slightly slower, how would it affect the development/entropy of the universe?
Yeah, but at least ours is massively parallel.