DWQA QuestionsCategory: MetaphysicsA viewer asks: “Does gravity create time, or does it invite and/or attract time? I think it does the latter, but I could be very wrong. I’m simply here looking and wondering.”
Nicola Staff asked 2 years ago
The reality of things is that time can be considered a fundamental force just as with gravity and other forms of energy. As such, there are ways they can interact and influence one another, and that is how we would view it, it is not that one is dominant and another subordinate, either. This is all a subjective perspective and will depend on particular circumstances, what you might be considering, and the factors involved in the moment with interpreting some kind of interaction and its consequences. So there are times when gravity, and its influence, is of overwhelming importance to an outcome, but other circumstances where the flow of time will be instrumental in allowing something to happen that otherwise might not and, in that case, gravity would be quite subordinate to the outcome, so this, in a way, is another kind of relativity you will learn to reckon with.