“spacetime” and “space is like a fabric”. Surely “Albert Einstein” was joking about this?

Question by Sir Isaac Newton: “spacetime” and “space is like a fabric”. Surely “Albert Einstein” was joking about this?
Although, I remove my hat to “Albert Einstein” for proving me wrong about light not being affect by gravity. Well done!

Best answer:

Answer by wilde_space
That apple must have really hurt you on the head. There’s nothing to joke about. That time is affected by gravity has been proven experimentally (gravitational time dilation). And you can actually see how space is bent by mass if you look at the photos of gravitational lensing of the galaxies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens

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