I like John Archibald Wheeler's brief description of the situation (which appears in print as marginalia in his book _Gravity_ with Misner and Thorne): "Matter tells space how to curve. Space tells matter how to move."
Agent-based modeling (with message-passing, even!), you might say. > Bruce, > > Did not Einstein put "action at a distance" wrt gravity to rest with his > general theory? Did he not theorize that gravity is a force that curves > space-time nearby rather than acting on other masses at a distance? > > Just askin' > Grant ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
