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Gravity's Effect on Mass: Exploring Its Impact
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[QUOTE="FactChecker, post: 6050668, member: 500115"] More precisely, it changes what we should think of as a straight path. The curvature of space-time due to gravity causes a bend in what is straight in space-time (a geodesic). So anything that moves, will move differently. It's like the surface of a globe changes the shortest path between two cities. It's really the opposite. What Newton thought of as acceleration due to gravity is thought of in GR as following a straight space-time line (geodesic) with no acceleration.Anything following a geoesic may look curved in space by the old, Newtonian thinking. No. You should not think of it that way. [/QUOTE]
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