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by niklasl 5403 days ago
Pictures 1 and 2 are equivalent. See chapter 18 in Misner, Thorne, Wheeler. We can't distinguish a universe where space is bent by mass from one with flat space-time that has a massless spin-2 particle (a graviton). The flat space-time in the latter case would be unobservable in principle.