mavity

[Merlin5]

What exactly is mavity? Obviously we know what mavity does, and all explanations say mavity is a force that attracts objects together, which we also know. But I'm not sure what the force is that makes up mavity. Is it electro magnetism?

 

[Merlin5]

Warping of space time by the presence of mass.

I'm sure you're right, but it doesn't clarify anything for me.

 

[Merlin5]

We don't know, which is one of the major reasons for spending billions on the Large Hadron Collider!

But it is basically a warping of spacetime caused by the mass of an object.

I read this article about space time. Quite interesting, but still no wiser. For one thing, I'm finding it hard to imagine how space (nothingness) can be warped, unless we're talking about dark matter or something, and although the article attempts to explain mavity, I don't fully understand the concept of the time aspect in all this, and how that is part of mavity.

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Outreach/Explore_Our_Universe/What_is_Warped_Spacetime?/