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What did eintein mean when he said that gravity warps space?

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It turns out that gravity distorts both space and time. In the presence of masses - and especially of large masses - space no longer obeys the laws of Euclidean geometry. For example, you can no longer expect the sum of all angles, in a triangle, to be exactly 180 degrees.

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