This always confused me. Einstein said that gravity was the warping of space. That a body, such as the Earth, literally bends space so objects can fall towards it, like what a marble would do if it were sitting in jell-o. Then there's the thing about gravitons, carrier particles that transmit the attraction of gravity, much like the other force particles of electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear bonds. What I don't get is the fact that these two theories seem completely different, and I would think it's either one or the other. But hasn't Einstein's theory been proven? Hasn't it been proven that space does warp, and that gravity is the product felt when objects fall into these warps? So how would the gravitons fit in? If an object is already falling into the warp, like a meteorite falling towards Earth, then why would there also be particles, gravitons, transmitting an attractive force? In fact I'll go one step further and say that if the Earth is warping space, and gravity is objects falling into that warp, then there really is no attraction being produced, but instead just objects following the curved path of space. Can someone help me out with this line of thinking? Thanks.


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