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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Replying to @litgenstein
I’m not sure how “natural” free fall is though .. wouldn’t the natural state be moving at a constant velocity?
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Replying to @InertialObservr @litgenstein
this is free fall in the absence of curvature though
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Replying to @bencbartlett @litgenstein
I agree.. I guess my objection is more about the concern of the confusion due to semantics .. people usually say free fall to necessarily mean “under gravity”
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Right but we understand those as perturbations about the “natural” linear geodesic
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Replying to @InertialObservr @LambdaQG and
perhaps I should have said “deviations” not perturbations
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