Newtonian motivations for general relativity

Okay kiddo, let me explain it to you very simply. Imagine you are playing with a toy car and you push it forward. It starts moving and you can see it going faster and faster as you keep pushing it. This is because of something called "Newton's Laws of Motion".

These laws help us understand how objects move and why they move the way they do. But, scientists realized that when objects move really fast, these laws don't work anymore. This was a big problem because they wanted to understand how things move in space, where objects move really fast all the time.

That's when Albert Einstein came along and created something called "General Relativity." This was a new way of understanding how objects move in space, even when they move really fast.

Einstein realized that gravity, which is what pulls us down to the ground, is actually caused by something called "curvature" in space. Think of a trampoline. When you put a heavy object on the trampoline, it makes a dent in the surface. This is kind of like how heavy objects, like planets, make a dent in space. And this dent, or curvature, is what causes objects to move in a certain way.

So, Einstein's General Relativity helped us understand how things move in space, even when they move really fast. It was a big breakthrough in science and helped us learn a lot about the universe.