Once you finally have your head wrapped around that, go back and take a look at something like gravity which according to Newtonian physics violates every single thing you just got done wrapping your head around..
Start off first of all by throwing out the Newtonian notion that gravity's effect is instantaneous; if no information, interaction between particles, or relation between anything and anything can travel faster than the speed of light, then gravity has to be traveling at either equal to or less than the speed of light. Well what is gravity? Newtonian physics made it out as an invisible connection tethering all matter together, with pulling on one particle having an instant gravitational effect on another particle. The more you think about it, the more that concept seems ridiculous, since if gravitational interactions occurred instantaneously, then all particles in the gravitational system would be stagnate/unchanging, since any inertia given to one particle would have an instant and equally distributed effect on all particles it was tethered to, and no change in position between the particles would ever occur at all.
So what causes gravity? If we go back to the thought experiment mentioned earlier that lead to special relativity, it ultimately forces a person to give their concept of space a complete overhaul. The phenomenon of space and time are intertwined as spacetime, which can be thought of as a cosmic byproduct produced by the nature of light and energy.
Gravity results due to the presence of matter dilating spacetime; the reason matter does this can be attributed to the fundamental differences between light and matter.
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