{"id":5602,"date":"2016-02-22T22:06:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T22:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/?p=5602"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:10:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:10:43","slug":"space-time-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2016\/02\/space-time-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"Space-time Fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/0204161107-copy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5603\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5603 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/0204161107-copy-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"space-time fabric\" width=\"577\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/0204161107-copy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/0204161107-copy-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/0204161107-copy-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/0204161107-copy-772x434.jpg 772w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/0204161107-copy-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heavy objects placed on giant spandex sheet curve fabric.<\/li>\n<li>Trajectories of rolling marbles on spandex sheet are affected by curvature of sheet.\u00a0(mostly they are affected by earth&#8217;s gravity&#8230; but the analogy gets the point across)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=youtube%20giant%20spandex%20spacetime%20curvature&amp;fr=yset_chr_syc_oracle&amp;type=orcl_newtab\">youtube video of this demo, with classroom ideas<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Demo can be set up in lab room, to accommodate audience participation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Heavy objects placed on giant spandex sheet curve fabric. Trajectories of rolling marbles on spandex sheet are affected by curvature of sheet.\u00a0(mostly they are affected by earth&#8217;s gravity&#8230; but the analogy gets the point across) youtube video of this demo, with classroom ideas. Demo can be set up in lab room, to accommodate audience &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2016\/02\/space-time-fabric\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space-time Fabric<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,73,3,547,80,8,50,62,1],"tags":[178,577,575,576],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6425,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions\/6425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}