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Megaton
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I'm new at this, trying to understand the overall picture of GR
From what I understand space does not actually curve but rather test particles tracing out their world lines in Euclidean space as compared to ones tracing out their world lines near a source of gravity is the physical meaning of curvature? And this is described mathematically using the Riemannian-curvature tensor?
Is this correct at all, I'm just trying to understand the overall idea of GR before trying to attempt the complex math
Thanks
From what I understand space does not actually curve but rather test particles tracing out their world lines in Euclidean space as compared to ones tracing out their world lines near a source of gravity is the physical meaning of curvature? And this is described mathematically using the Riemannian-curvature tensor?
Is this correct at all, I'm just trying to understand the overall idea of GR before trying to attempt the complex math
Thanks