How do you fold space?

Answer 1

clap your hands...

Answer 2

Fold isn't the word I would use to describe what you are asking.

Think more along the lines of "bending". The more massive an object is (lets use a regular tennis ball), the more gravity it exerts on everything near it. A tennis ball is less massive than a bowling ball so it has less gravity.

In very massive objects like planets, gravity is strong enough to hold items in orbit around itself. Think of space like a mattress. If you put the bowling ball in the center of a mattress it will cause a "bend" in the mattress. If you place the tennis ball near the bowling ball's "dent" it will fall in and become caught. Albert Einstein proved that gravity can "bend" space in the same way a bowling ball will "bend" a mattress.

Now Black Holes, have infinite mass, so at its boundaries, gravity is also infinite. Imagine your bowling ball falling straight through the mattress. Even though no one knows exactly what occurs inside a black hole, it "bends" space so much that it "rips" the fabric of space so that not even the fastest thing in the universe (light) can escape.

Finally, to answer your question. You can "bend" space simply by having mass. Any item/energy with mass "bends" space, but its only noticeable in very massive things.

Answer 3

Take 10 pounds of flour and 5 pounds of water and mix them together thoroughly. The result will indeed still weigh 15 pounds, (not counting a fraction loss due to evaporation caused by friction) yet it will still occupy almost the same amount of space as the flour did itself.

That is, we increased the mass by 50% but the spacial increase is only about 5%.

Now compare the Molecular density within our atmosphere to that outside of our atmosphere. We do this strictly so we have a reference point that we can relate to and understand the results.

Now inflate a balloon and realize that the number of molecules in that region of space use to exist in a much larger area but are now confined. In the same amount of time it would take a single molecule to normally cross a room, we could walk a a leisurley pace and cause millions of molecules to be relocated within the balloon, then release them at the other end.

If we can simply artificially compress the matter in space in much the same way, step to the other side of the matter, then release the compression we would still be at the other side.

Answer 4

You can't bend nothingness, but space isn't nothingness. For instance there is radiation and gravity. Anything put in the nothingness becomes something and that's what gets bent. For instance when you watch the sun go down yet there is still the sunset, the light has bent from the gravity of the Earth. It's stuff like that, which is getting bent and folded.

Answer 5

Stephen Hawking gave a lecture which touches quite a bit on the possibility of wormholes in folding space.
Here are some theories.

Answer 6

gravity, space is folded by gravity, take a bowling ball put it on a mattress, the mattress will fold around the bowling ball
this experiment also shows how gravity works :put a golf ball by the bowling ball if it gets close to the depression created by the bowling ball it will fall (pull) toward it

Answer 7

To fold space,first you must bend it...tom science

Answer 8

Write it on a piece of paper and fold it *GRIN*

Answer 9

with a space folder $19.95 on E-bay

Answer 10

Neatly, preferably.

Answer 11

Black hole

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