Arthur Eddington:
Pick up the tablecloth. [Winnie and Frank hold up the tablecloth] Space. The tablecloth is space... [Holds up a round loaf of bread] The sun. [Drops it in the middle of the stretched tablecloth] What's happening?
Winnie Eddington:
What?
Arthur Eddington:
What's happening with the sun in space?
Winnie Eddington:
Well, the bread is sinking into the tablecloth.
Frank Dyson:
The sun makes a shape around it in space.
Arthur Eddington:
Yes. Now, what happens if I do this? [Tosses an apple into the tablecloth; apple makes an oval around the bread] It *wants* to travel in a straight line, but it can't. Why not?
Winnie Eddington:
Because the bread is making a shape.
Frank Dyson:
The apple follows the curves made in space.
Arthur Eddington:
Yes. Yes, space is shaped. And *that* is how gravity works. Space tells objects how to move. Objects tell space what shape to be. And there's a way to prove it.
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