If you can get an intuition for what the following two quotes mean, you'll have understood most of the conceptual content of general relativity: "Space tells matter how to move; matter tells space how to curve." "Free fall is the natural state of motion."
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For me it helps to make sense of the move from how our Newtonian friends asked “what is this force that is pulling these objects to the ground? It’s spooky that they fall!” to our more contemporary picture of objects simply following the world lines on the manifold
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Right I agree .. I think we’re slightly speaking past one another .. my replies to
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Right .. see my replies to
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