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nathan_compton06/18/20251 replyview on HN

I'm not trying to disprove what you are saying, I'm just providing some context. Although, point of fact, I think its a weird framing, since even GR, which you seem to be talking about, casts gravity as reciprocal with matter. As the old saying goes: spacetime tells matter how to move, matter tells spacetime how to bend. If that isn't an interaction, I don't know what is.

But, that aside, the idea that gravity is spacetime is really just the theory of general relativity and that is clearly not the final word on the subject. Other approaches to gravity may admit alternative ontologies.

Again, I'm not trying to prove or disprove anything. Just saying that you are kind of oversimplifying an open scientific question.


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quantadev06/18/2025

Shape of space simply means the "Metric Tensor", and saying it's the sum total of what General Relativity is describing isn't some "bold" or "weird" framing (your words); it's both complete and correct.

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