Space-time is quite well understood, but not completely.
What is the main problem according to your opinion?
But I can see that you now are saying that the curvature of space is a property of space-(time).
Hans
No, we are saying that it is a property of space-time. You cannot separate the two.
I am not "separating" these two things, but only defining the 2 properties involved.
One as you wrote; time, - and the other; - distances.
There are different.
This is enough to show my point.
No. We cannot understand space without paying attention to time.
Of course not without time there would be no observation.
No, I have not divided spacetime into two properties. They are inseparable. Stop misinterpreting me.
Even though these are inseparable, we are dealing with 2 different properties of space.
Bjarne
So left is to focus on the “deformation of space” property.
After to have insulated time, - we can easy conclude that; deformation of space is not “made of time” but can only be made of space.
Hans
Wrong. The deformation of spacetime is made of spacetime.
From an overall perspective yes, since the Universe too have gravity and anything are never without influence of that.
But even though time always is “bound” to how space differ from place to place, you can still dig deeper in the; - structure / density/ tension/ curvature/ space-vacuum - property of space.
Off course time dilation can't be separated from that, - nothing wrong with that, nobody denies this, - rather this is my point; -you cannot change the structure/density/vacuum of space without also to disturb time, -
proportional.
Times AND distances are different. A meter is not the same, but it still takes one second to travel one meter at one m/s.
Exactly
So how did Einstein solve the Mercury Perihelion Precession Anomaly?
Because even though there is more time for those "living there", (due to the clock ticks slower) – distances are proportional longer.
So even though there is more time to get things done, for example to complete a orbit around the sun, - distances are simply proportional longer , and therefore Mercury shall
not orbit faster as calculated from a Earth perspective..
Bjarne
Is the nature of gravity (space) insulated from time so simple?
What do you think?
Hans
You cannot equate gravity and space.
This is not what I am doing, but only digging so deep as possible in one of the 2 properties of space have, - even though we both agree these are inseparable connected.
And you cannot isolate it from time. So no it is not 'so simple'.
Of course not, - but the point is space-time have 2 properties, - the only "one" I am researching is the “space-structure” property.
Off course times dilation follows as an equal proportional” effect” doesn’t matter where you end up with the “space-structure” property – at the end of the day.
The point have never been to deny that, but only to keep “distance” to the time-property, since that is not the (main) point, - time dilation follows "automatically" you do even not need to mention it.
Here is an example; you can say space is twisted around an elementary particle and space deforms, - This description is fine, - but to be complete you must then add, - and therefore time ticks slower. – BUT there is no reason to mention this, because we are discussion the structure property, insulated, - not the time property, - this is ignored.
Here is another example.
I am in Sahara, it is June, and 12 a clock the sun are shining not a single cloud of the sky.
We was measuring the very low moisture content (one inseparable property of Sahara connected to the desert)
It is not necessary to mention it was hot that day (another inseparable property)
You can insulate all you research to; - the measurement of the moisture, and completely ignore to report anything about yes it was hot.
But this doesn’t mean that Sahara no longer is what it once was, but just that this is not the point with the mission.
I wonder, - you do now admit to agree to that that time and distances are always equal proportional connected (in GR), - how would it now be possible to explain the Mercury Perihelion Precession Anomaly?