General Relativity.

I don't know if this would be one of the aforementioned discredited theories, but I started reading an article about a possible misconception of gravity, and it mentioned gravity as a warping of space time rather than an attractive force. Supposedly, this theory is supposed to work the same as gravity and meet most of the same predictions, but could explain a select few of the anomolies as well.Now, I'm not a complete idiot, but this theory doesn't make sense to me. It seems that if there are two objects that are initially stationary to the inertial reference frame, there shouldn't be any reason for the space between them to decrease unless the warping is continual. If this is the case, how could space time continue to warp without the aid of some sort of attractive force?Somehow I don't think a student who took one Physics course would be able to challenge a theory developed by a team of physicists, so I'm obviously missing something. If anyone knows how this theory is supposed to work, I'm all ears.

Yeah, that's the one.In fact, the bowling ball analogy was precisely how I arrived at my question. The explanation was that a straight line would always gravitate towards the center, and though it seems that given the correct orientation it would escape regardless, I let it go considering that the analogy might fail because it only explains the warping of a 2-dimensional space. The part that still bothers me, however, is that the only reason a stationary object should move towards the center is because of the continual warping of space time.If this is the case, I guess my question would be how is that different than simply calling it an attractive force?

Yeah, I didn't think that describing it as curved could suffice. Thank god the difficult version wasn't explained... And to think I blamed it on my teacher. But of course!To any of you who didn't catch the sarcasm of my previous statements, I no longer have any idea what's going on. In actuality, my brain exploded (true story) when I read that first line. Still, I'm a little jealous of the genius level of physics knowledge displayed here, so I'm hoping that either of you might be able to recommend a few sources so that I might be able to better understand these concepts in the future (however distant).