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Tiago
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Hello,
Let me explain my question. We know from GR, that gravity is just something (planet, light, etc) following a geodesic path through distorted spacetime. But that's just because everything is still in motion from the big bang, traveling at the speed of its own inertia.
So let's assume, just for the sake of argument, that EVERYTHING in the universe stopped moving. Impossible of course, but if that were to be true, planets and stars wouldn't just fall to each other because of gravity, right? Gravity wouldn't exist. We would probably stay in the ground, but feeling weightless, right? Gravity is not a force of attraction, just a distortion of our path through spacetime.
Is this correct?
Thanks
Let me explain my question. We know from GR, that gravity is just something (planet, light, etc) following a geodesic path through distorted spacetime. But that's just because everything is still in motion from the big bang, traveling at the speed of its own inertia.
So let's assume, just for the sake of argument, that EVERYTHING in the universe stopped moving. Impossible of course, but if that were to be true, planets and stars wouldn't just fall to each other because of gravity, right? Gravity wouldn't exist. We would probably stay in the ground, but feeling weightless, right? Gravity is not a force of attraction, just a distortion of our path through spacetime.
Is this correct?
Thanks