All I know about general relativity is: “Gravity curves space and time around it“. However, what I abstract from it is much more. The result of this process is: “General relativity highlights the existence of space and time of all things“. Accordingly, the differences of all objects in space and time are the basis for the existence of the concept of “space, time”.
I divide the world into two fundamental types: the absolute world and the relative world. The absolute world is the essential world, the state of rest of all cosmic objects. The relative world is the world of motion, the world of all processes occurring in the universe. The relative world can be the physical world, the chemical world, the social world, etc., and the worldview itself is also a moving world within the absolute world. Therefore, sometimes we imagine an object in front of us for a longer time than when we imagine a distant planet in the universe; thus, the worldview is a reflection of various types of worlds, but it itself is a relative world.
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Returning to general relativity and its philosophical implications. Imagine that the space around us consists of curves due to the effects of cosmic gravity. Therefore, the shortest path (as the crow flies) is not a straight line but a curve. Astronomically, the surface of the Earth is a sphere; hence, the shortest path cannot be an absolute straight line. Thus, every spatial distance in our world is a curve. For any two points A and B, the distance AB is an arc. When A coincides with B, we have a circle! Thus, with countless points in different spatial positions that intersect at a single point, that point is the center of the universe. Not only that, objects with different times in the relative world intersect at the center of the universe in the absolute world. Therefore, gravity is what creates the differences in space and time, thereby creating various phenomena.
In fact, the world only has one unique point, which is the center of the universe. However, gravity creates circles with two endpoints being the center of the universe, resulting in the diversity of all things in the relative world. Gravity, on one hand, plays a role in allowing the worldview to grasp the essence of the world, but on the other hand, it creates a relative world that deceives perception when it cannot seize the opportunities it offers!
I speculate that if we can move from one spatial position to another using transportation means, could we create a machine that could move back and forth through positions in time?
The abstract issues I have speculated above have significance in terms of space, while time represents another influence of gravity, which is really hard to imagine!
