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The original was posted on /r/highstrangeness by /u/Additional-Aerie5457 on 2025-06-18 10:52:45+00:00.

Gravity is the motor that powers everything we know, matter being the medium it moves. And time is simply a measurement of the strength of a local gravity’s effect on the fabric of space.

This thought came to me about three years ago, and I wanted to flesh it out and see if this already has some semblance in the community or is already being talked about. Essentially, one night I was sitting in my room, lights dimmed, and eyes closed, and it felt like this entire concept was quite literally flash drived into my brain and I immediately understood it.

Instead of using faster engines, or trying to find out how to accelerate quicker through space, what if we could manipulate gravity itself to completely bypass spacetime? The thought I had essentially is that space is made of matter and influenced both by time and gravity. All movement requires moving through time within space fabric. If we could somehow manipulate gravity directly, we could move without using time through space. It wouldn’t be time travel at all, but movement not dependent on time elapsing. Maybe a local gravity field or a bubble that simply allows us to have our own pull of gravity to detach from being affected by the local area gravity, but then coming back to local gravity would probably have it’s own issues.

I know this concept probably isn’t very new, but I wanted to share it with like minded people and hear what everyone has to say.