Timeline for Curvature of spacetime in only required to explain tidal forces?
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| May 11, 2012 at 18:12 | vote | accept | fiftyeight | ||
| May 11, 2012 at 18:12 | vote | accept | fiftyeight | ||
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| May 7, 2012 at 18:00 | comment | added | John Rennie | Hi fiftyeight, I've appended a reply to the original question because it got a bit long to put in a comment. | |
| May 7, 2012 at 17:59 | history | edited | John Rennie | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 1707 characters in body |
| May 7, 2012 at 15:07 | comment | added | fiftyeight | great answer, thank you, one clarification if I may: In the case of Me and You standing on Earth, once the forces of the floor acting on my feet have given me some acceleration and deviated me from my geodesic, am I not on a new geodesic now through spacetime in which I am just floating above the floor. What I mean is I don't understand why the forces of the floor need to keep accelerating me all the time, because usually once a force have acted for some time you can stop the force and the object will keep moving in an inertial way. | |
| May 7, 2012 at 6:58 | history | answered | John Rennie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |