My favorite folk explanation of general relativity (due to J. A. Wheeler I think) is: people think if all matter disappeared, space and time would remain, but GR says, if all matter disappeared, space and time would disappear too
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You want a folk explanation of GR as a field theory?
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Of that particular insight about space/time/matter
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