Did Einstein revolutionize our understanding of gravity?
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Did Einstein revolutionize our understanding of gravity?
Imagine you're an apple falling from a tree in a garden. You watch it fall straight down instead of curving like it used to when you were younger.
Einstein figured out that massive objects like Earth actually warp the space around them, which makes things like apples fall straight down instead of curving.
Example
If you drop an apple from a tree, it falls straight down, not curving as it would if space was flat.
Remember this
Einstein's General Relativity explains why objects fall straight down due to the warping of space by massive objects.
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