Space Time Fabric
The fabric of space time.
Space time fabric. According to the best of current physical theories space time explains. So far einsteins theory of relativity which describes space and time as a smooth fabric thats distorted or bent by massive objects has been a spectacularly sucessful explaination of gravity. 14 and included a remarkable demonstration that the concept of the invariant interval discussed below along with the empirical observation that the speed of light is finite allows derivation of the entirety of special relativity. Nov 4 2018 9 min read.
Albert was trying to understand why light which was assumed to have no mass would curve towards large gravity fields that surround stars. The fabric of space time is a conceptual model combining the three dimensions of space with the fourth dimension of time. The fabric of space time was proposed by albert einstein in 1916 in his theory of general relativity. He postulated that gravity distorts space so that objects including light from stars must follow a curved path around large bodies of gravity such as stars and black holes.
In the newtonian picture of gravity space and time are absolute fixed quantities while in the einsteinian picture. We can no more observe the fabric of space than we can observe the nothingness of empty spacetime.