Why does the earth revolve around the sun?

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The Earth is traveling in a straight path through spacetime. But the mass of the Sun causes spacetime to be slightly warped in its vicinity, in a way one could call hyperbolic or convex over small areas. In space alone, this “straight” path looks like an ellipse around the Sun. A poor analogy might be an ant on a…