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Originally Posted by LeisureChrist
What we think of as gravity is, in and of itself, spatial distortion. Anything that has a rest mass of greater than zero will curve space-time toward itself it accordance with its mass and its velocity. This is a big part of why I do not regard gravity as being a fundamental force...It has no direct effect on matter, but rather on the space-time through which matter moves. The reason you come down when you jump up is not because the Earth is pulling on you. It is because the space-time through which you are jumping is curved much more towards the Earth's mass than it is towards your mass. We tend not to notice this because we observe the phenomenon using light and light, too, follows along the manifold curves of the space-time continuum. This is why good science fiction generally uses some means of stepping outside of normal space-time in order to circumvent the speed of light. By travelling in a straight line while space-time is curved, one can reach a destination before light would, while never exceeding light-speed locally.
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I'm aware of the reason gravity works. However, what I describe is ensuring the sheer occurs not at a central point, as with a quantum singularity, but away from the center, thus keeping the objected intended to be moved unaffected or minimally affected by the distortion. But the concept of stepping "outside normal space" wasn't well thought out in science fiction and is dependent on an "outside" that no one's proven exists, ergo is a lot to hedge a bet on. It's why I always avoided the idea myself. At best you can expect a tesseract, but that's just bending space in this universe.