[Crowbob]

I've been thinking abut this which always gets me in trouble. My confusion arises from the description of space-time as being a 'fabric'. The image of a fabric automatically leads me to the error that space-time is of only two dimensions.

What helps me is to eject the notion of 'fabric' entirely. Space-time seems to be more of a noncompressible gel. The 'time' dimension being the expansion of the gel itself. The gel is continually expanding as time goes forward. If the gel contracts, time goes backwards.

In simple terms, the noncompressibility characteristic explains the effect that an event can have on the gel itself and the objects within the gel and is analogous to displacement in water. In addition, however, the gel is very very weakly conductive. Not conductive in an electromagnetical way but rather in a gravitational way. Gravity being the 'weak force' to begin with, rapidly loses its effect the further back in space-time the object (or event) occurs but never goes away completely.

That's my interpretation anyway and I'm sticking with it.