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Good discussion of your question: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/24359/why-do-objects-follow-geodesics-in-spacetime http://physics.stackexchange.com
by textminer 13y ago
Good discussion of your question: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/24359/why-do-objects-follow-geodesics-in-spacetime http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/24359/why-do-obje...
- ars 13y agoThat answers why they move along geodesics. It doesn't answer why they move.
- textminer 13y agoI thought those seemed part and parcel. :) "I'm in the gravity well of a star" leads to "this alters the geodesic of spacetime that the I tumble down", which made me wonder "wait, why does it tumble down geodesics to begin with". The answers seems to be "physics doesn't have to abide by your intuition or need for narratives, human"