<div dir="auto"><div>Hello Tom,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You have nailed it. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You are right, that if something is something like nothing, then it is impossible for it to distort. But, if what we have understood as nothing, is not actually nothing but something, then it may turn into something else or distort. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What if, that something (which distorts) is actually very close to something like nothing, Then if you add something else to that nothing, then it creates the illusion of distortion of nothing. But in actuality identity of nothing is still preserved despite illusion of something.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For example : if transparency = nothing then pure water = nothing. If we add colour to this water, then it is no more transparent , so it becomes something. But instead of saying that it is now something, we still prefer tobsay that <i>nothing is now coloured</i>. By the same logic possibly, we have declared that <i>space is nothing </i>and nothing is distorted.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Tufail Abbas.<br><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 8, 2017 10:18 PM, "<a href="mailto:carmam@tiscali.co.uk">carmam@tiscali.co.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:carmam@tiscali.co.uk">carmam@tiscali.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Tesla was correct on this one (and numerous others). Space is nothing. How can nothing be distorted?<div>Tom Hollings.<div class="elided-text"><br>
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Date: 08/06/2017 15:15<br>
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Subj: [Physics] gravity is NOT a force<br>
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<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt"><div>The effect of a mass is to distort the surrounding space-time continuum. This distortion is proportional to the linear distance from the center of the mass.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></span></div>
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