How does a massive object deform space?

Subject: How does a massive object deform space?

Date: Mon Sep 28 12:03:48 1998
Posted by JD Archer
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Can someone explain to me how a massive object can deform space? The
illustration that I have seen show space as a plane surface, deformed 
in one direction by (the earth, for example) the mass. If you draw all
lines to the center of the mass, they radiate outward in straight 
lines.
Thanks, JDA

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