Why does the fabric of the space time continuum bend around massive objects?

Mass bends space - mass influences the fields that make up space. Unless you study some advance mathematics it is easier to accept that this is so.

An interestng question in the contex of those who think we create our own reality. It tends to support the view that there is an objctive reality of which we have our own versions.

My version doesn't include back holes, I've never seen one, or space bending around other massive objects such as the sun. That doesn't mean I don't believe in such things. I've never seen an atom either but the theory is sound, and our universe appears to be full of the things. Perhaps as our understanding of these things will increase as quantum physics develops.

In the mean time I'm keeping my distance in the hope that my fabric doesn't get bent.

Science is now in the process of revisiting gravity theory because of the difficulties it presents to a unified theory of forces, but as is, gravity suggests that the whole shape of space-time is determined by the matter and energy that is in it. Think of a plastic shopping bag. When empty, it is flat. When full it takes the shape of its contents, even if you just fill it with air.

Space does not exist until there is an object and then it exists in a sort of shopping bag shape around everything (minus of course the handles.)

Why does space time bend around object? Because it is the only way it gives itself any dimensions st all

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Because it's not Perma--Prest. lol

Seriously, it doesn't like being shoved aside by objects, so it stretches and clings snug around 'em.

like elastic, which SpaceTime is.

It bends round EVERYTHING not just massive objects - and we don't know why, it just does.

Because Einstein.