DrGreg said:
It's perhaps also pointing out that in relativity the concept of "acceleration" (specifically "proper acceleration") is a geometrical concept -- it's essentially the curvature of a curve (worldline) in spacetime, i.e. the distance-versus-time trajectory of an object that is accelerating relative to a freely falling object.
It's fairly easy to say that curvature can be related to relative acceleration between nearby geodesics per unit distance between said geodesics - which has units of (m / s^2) for the acceleration, and units of meters for the distance between them. When we divide the acceleration by the distance, we get units of (m/s^2) / meter, or units of 1/s^2. We can also note that mass and forces don't fundamentally enter into this geometric picture, because geodesics are a geometric concept, independent of forces - geodesics are curves that any test particle follows, we don't need to know the mass or composition of the test particle.
But I'm not sure how much sense that observation is going to make sense at the "B" level :(. I think it requires some background ideas of what a geodesic are, and that my foray here into what is basically the "geodesic deviation equation" is too brief to be comprehensible without already knowing the material.
Talking about space-time curvature at the "B" level is even harder. I tend to assume that most B-level posters are NOT all that familiar with special relativity, much less the geometric version of special relativity that is really needed here. Taylor & Wheeler's "Space-time Physics" is a good reference for this background material, but I'd put it at "I" level, and that's just the background for the "space-time" part of "space-time curvature", it doesn't talk about the "curvature" part at all.
Sector models (rather than the geodesic deviation equation) are an alternate approach to talk about curvature, which might also be useful, and there are even some papers about them that aren't too bad to follow. I talked a bit about this in
https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...s-space-in-the-real-case.1050537/post-6972834.
Basically, as I see it, when we try to describe gravity as being due to space-time curvature, we need the reader to understand both space-time, and curvature, and if an understanding of either one (or most likely both) is lacking, putting it all together isn't going to work.