Curves in Spacetime
General relativity seems hideous until it explains Mercury's orbit. Then, suddenly, curved spacetime is lovely: beauty follows truth, not the other way around.
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"Gravity is curves in spacetime." "Nonsense and logaram! Hideous balderdash!" "Also, this theory explains the perihelion precession of Mercury." "'Curves in spacetime', you say… Well, isn't that just lovely!"
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-11-07-curves-in-spacetime/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)