A straight line may be the shortest 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 between two points, but a "Brachistochrone" curve is the path of least timepic.twitter.com/aWPoz9X6i9
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And it would need to be a VERY massive object to provide much gravitational effect. The story goes that Isaac Newton dispatched this problem in a single night, after all the continental giants had worked on Bernoulli's challenge for months. "I know the lion by his roar." J.B.
Right but we don’t have to assume gravity is what makes them speed up to relativistic speeds. We can ask what will happen if they start at those high speeds
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What would be the deflecting force then that caused them to deviate their paths? 2nd Law issues arise I think? Not a physicist so...forgive my ignorance.
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They don’t get deflected but there’s length contraction and time dilation effects you’d have to consider
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