May 6, 2011
#895: Teaching Physics explain

Cueball: Understanding gravity: Space-time is like a rubber sheet. Massive objects distort the sheet, and-
Student: Wait.
Student: They distort it because they’re pulled down by… what?
Cueball: sigh
Cueball: Space-time is like this set of equations, for which any analogy must be an approximation.
Student: Boooooring.