Timeline for Relativity Questions: Earth and a sky-diver
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Jan 11 at 1:59 | comment | added | Solomon Slow | You spoke of "force" but @Dale's answer mostly says "acceleration." That's because, in General Relativity (GR), gravitation is not a force. In GR an object upon which no forces act (e.g., you, after you step out of the airplane) always follows a path called a geodesic. That is, the closest thing you can have to a "straight line" in curved space. You fall toward the ground because in GR, geodesics bend toward massive bodies. | |
Jan 10 at 20:55 | answer | added | Dale | timeline score: 2 | |
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S Jan 10 at 20:32 | history | asked | Marco Chacon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |