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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Right but we understand those as perturbations about the “natural” linear geodesic
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oh I just interpreted freefall in this context to be moving along any geodesic
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Yes that’s how /we/ understand it but the original tweet of “understand these 2 bois” I was just concerned could be misleading but maybe I’m just being a twat
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