if gravity is the bending of space through time(simply put) then if time stops, does gravity cease to exist?

Question

if gravity is the bending of space through time(simply put) then if time stops, does gravity cease to exist?

Answer 1

Of course! Everybody knows that!

Answer 2

The way I see it, it DOES happen. Matter DOES bend space-time, causing everything in vicinity to be attracted to mass. Gravity is a natural phenomenon of the universe. And there are many phenomenon. The Earth spins. The Sun emits light. Everything that goes up must come down. Grass grows. Electrons flow. The problem with the phenomenon of gravity is that there's no explanation for WHY it happens. I mean, there's evidence that it DOES happen, there's just no evidence for the rhyme or reason, the cause. Also, quantum mechanics is at a huge loss because no particle has been discovered yet that causes gravity. IF there were a graviton particle, I think that would answer MANY questions like exactly how and what is going on (in terms of particles and energy transfer) in gravitational attraction. Gravity is kind of like a scientific law. Mass attracts. That's all there is to it. It's just like saying light travels in waves. There's no reason or cause that light travels in waves. It's just a property of the universe, a law. And laws cannot be bent nor broken.

Answer 3

Space time is warped not gravity,

The analogy of an infinitely flexible rubber sheet with a dent around each object in space is not to be taken literarily. We can’t see the warping of space time, and gravity is not affected by the warping.

Besides if time stopped then you would no longer be able to move nor would the force that creates gravity. So the effect of gravity would continue.

Stopping time won’t create a singularity; a black hole is an infinite amount of gravity at one point that stresses space time to the point where it breaks. This has nothing to do with time. The space time frame is broken at this point, but that point is beyond the event horizon and so it can’t be observed from this universe. This point is called the Schwarzschild Radius and the Event Horizon and all black holes are shrouded in an Event Horizon.

Answer 4

As far as I know, according to Einstein Space and Time are always together. Hence Space-Time is a continuous fabric. Nether of them can exist without the other. So ending of time implies that the space too has ended. Inother words we are probably talking of the black hole. So, "Nothing" exists in such a scenario. Not even gravity. Since gravity is a crumpling up of space-time fabric, if there is no fabric in the first place then gravity has no existence.

Answer 5

Not really. Gravity is bending of 4-dimensional spacetime by a mass. If time were stopped, this would be equivalent to looking at a 3-D slice of spacetime. The curvature would still exist, but would not be changing at a given place.

So when time "stops", gravity exists, but is not changing. Of course, objects would not be moving through time, but the forces are still present.

Hope that helps.

Answer 6

All of the answers have missed the point. Time can only exist with movement, movement requires space. In a black hole there is no space, therefore no movement, therefore no time, but gravity certainly exists.

Answer 7

Gravity can't be simplified like that, even then, that's hardly the definition. Besides, if time stopped, gravity wouldn't because gravity in its mathematical equation is kept constant, ot being altered by other variables or tangents.

Answer 8

It isn't. Gravity is a warp of space-time, not of either space or time individually.

Answer 9

Well...... Since all of the tensors involved in Einsteins field equations have time-dependent terms.... I'd say yes.
Actually....... If time stops, pretty much -every- thing stops.

Doug

Answer 10

No. When time stops, you have a singularity -- in other words a black hole.