Episode 136: Introduction to General Relativity
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Geodesic Path
In curved space, a straight line as in like without any curves is not the shortest distance between two points. And so that's why it looks like there's a force that acts on the objects that moves them away from traveling on a straight line. In fact, they are traveling straight in the sense of the shortest distancebetween two points. It only looks that way because of the inaccuracy of the projection.
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