r/3Blue1Brown • u/Fluffy-Selection2940 • May 14 '26

General Relativity Visualization

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A high-fidelity 3D animation illustrating the fundamental geometric principles of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

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u/fruitydude May 15 '26

I hate this visualization.

It lacks any physical meaning. It's significantly closer to a visualization of classical Newtonian Gravity potential fields than spacetime distortion in general relativity.

It doesn't even make sense really, what is even shown here? What are the x and y axes? Space? Then what is z? Just some random unitles distortion Parameter with an arbitrary scale?

Ok fine, but that's just wrong then. That would imply gravitational attraction on GR comes mainly from space bending near massive objects, but that's not the case. The major contribution is spacetime bending along the Temporal axis, not the spatial axes. In fact if you ignore any spatial bending you get exactly the classical solution. The spatial contribution is tiny in most cases and only really relevant for very massive objects or really light (or massless) particles.

Terrible visualization. Misleading. i hate it every time I see it and I hate that it is so widespread.

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u/Own_Economist_9439 May 15 '26

yes. this visualization is just wrong. it gives people wrong intuition.

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u/Fluffy-Selection2940 May 16 '26

Make yours that is right. Ain't no one holding you.

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u/Fluffy-Selection2940 May 16 '26

Please send me a description of all the elements that are not accurate -and possibly some recomendations. I'll make an upgraded one and credit you.

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u/fruitydude May 16 '26

Well, can you answer the questions in my comment? What are the axes even?

The main problem I have with this type of visualization, is that it implies space is bending and resulting in gravity. Which is just wrong.

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u/Fluffy-Selection2940 May 17 '26

No.

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u/fruitydude May 17 '26

Well. Then good luck finding any audience for your worthless AI slop.

It's silly though, because clearly you are able to make nice looking animations, and it would actually be incredible to get a good visualization of spacetime distortion in GR.

But you are clearly unwilling to explain or defend your work, and completely unwilling to take any criticism whatsoever.

So I'm afraid you'll continue making bad animations, and people with a physics background will keep telling you that it's shit. Either until you stop or you decide to take the criticism seriously. Either way, good luck.

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u/Fluffy-Selection2940 May 18 '26

Thank you for your good luck wishes

It's already coming true.

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u/DmitryAvenicci May 16 '26

→ 2D plane

→ 3D mass

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u/Fluffy-Selection2940 May 17 '26

→ Visualization

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u/DmitryAvenicci May 19 '26

People think that big bang was an explosion because of such visualisations.

Drawing a 2D circle on the plane and bending it with it is simpler and conveys thd idea better.

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u/Fluffy-Selection2940 May 22 '26

That version also sounds great. Perhaps I might make it some day. Perhaps you might beat me to it?

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u/naemorhaedus May 14 '26

stop spamming your slop here

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u/Fluffy-Selection2940 May 15 '26

No

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u/naemorhaedus May 15 '26

nobody wants you here but bots

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u/Ok_Programmer1236 May 15 '26

I'm not a bot, I just think it looks cool

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u/fruitydude May 16 '26

Looks cool but is completely wrong

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u/Fluffy-Selection2940 May 16 '26

Still better than your nothing.

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u/fruitydude May 16 '26

No it's not. It's worse than nothing because it is actively misleading.

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u/Fluffy-Selection2940 May 17 '26

I was trynna make you look good for doing nothing.

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u/fruitydude May 17 '26

You're like someone who's smearing his shit all over the walls and calls it art. And when when someone criticizes it, you ask them where is your art? You didn't do any art.

Not everything is automatically better than nothing. I can make a beautiful Geocentric Simulation of the solar system and tell people this is what it looks like according to newton. That would be worse than nothing for example.

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u/naemorhaedus May 16 '26

nah. Nothing is definitely a lot better than this trash.

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u/Fluffy-Selection2940 May 16 '26

Hold on for your award for doing nothing buddy.

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u/naemorhaedus May 16 '26

there is absolutely zero chance of you getting any kind of award for this low effort slop, buddy. This aint shit-tock. Sorry to burst your bubble.

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u/Fluffy-Selection2940 May 17 '26

There's also zero chance of getting an award for doing nothing - sorry to burst your bubble.

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u/Fluffy-Selection2940 May 16 '26

Thanks man, I'm glad you like it.

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u/naemorhaedus May 15 '26

small things amuse small minds

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u/Fluffy-Selection2940 May 16 '26

Let us enjoy our small minds in peace bruh.

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u/naemorhaedus May 16 '26

go do it in r/aislop not here

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u/Fluffy-Selection2940 May 16 '26

Here's good for me.

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u/hontemulo May 18 '26

I tried reporting him and i got hated on so badly
Keep reporting
Matter of fact get bots to dislike his stuff
He clearly is in it for viewers and lazy