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Can we always effectively describe a timelike worldline (non-geodesic) in one spacetime as a geodesic in some other spacetime with a different metric? Is this implied by the equivalence principle saying that acceleration and gravitation are indistinguishable.

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  • $\begingroup$ Are you defining geodesic by an action principle or by the geodesic equation? $\endgroup$
    – Ryan Unger
    Commented Feb 12, 2016 at 1:47
  • $\begingroup$ geodesic equation @0celo7 $\endgroup$
    – Shadumu
    Commented Feb 12, 2016 at 16:20
  • $\begingroup$ Related: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/224876/…, possible duplicate. $\endgroup$
    – Ryan Unger
    Commented Feb 12, 2016 at 18:14

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