About curved space ...

The predictions of Einstein's GR to determine gravitational effects brought about by curvature of spacetime are very accurate. However, if you don't buy into the concept of spacetime, how can normal space be curved?
Newton thought that a variation in the density of the ether caused the gravitational effect, which I believe, is right.
It just so happens that ether density variation causes light to curve in the way predicted by GR.
So curvature of space is really just changes in the ether density.


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I don't think normal space is curved. I think effects that are being attributed to curved space are physical effects not geometry effects.

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So curvature of space is really just changes in the ether density.
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Perhaps so, but we must always be clear what we are actually attributing phenomena to. The two explanations are philosophically worlds apart.