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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Gravity

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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Gravity

Veritasium explains, with expert input, that in general relativity gravity is not a force and objects follow straight paths through curved spacetime, including why standing on the ground means you are accelerating.

HN links it as a go-to intuitive explanation whenever gravity as spacetime curvature or free fall comes up.

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