The Ice Bucket Challenge also taps into one of
the key pieces of wisdom regarding content for social media: not only does it need to be «quality» in the sense of being meaningful and something people connect with, it also needs to be content people will be want to be seen engaging with publicly.
Now this comes from a, this
piece of it comes from a 2003 paper by a planetary scientist named Jack
Wisdom at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology; and what he discovered is that you can move, as you [were describing] through curved space by moving, [let's] say, your arms and legs, or if you're an alien as it is described in the article, a tripod alien — just for the simplicity
of demonstrating how the movements are with, sort
of, heavy feet and a ball at the end
of the tail that helped to move the [weight] around, just to make it kind
of simple to look through — you can move through curved spacetime without pushing against anything, and this is the
key here.