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this is heading into semantics but gravity is a force
I thought that's where we came in - the question of whether gravity is a force. Mass/energy interacts with space-time in two ways, firstly by curving it and secondly by following the geodesic unless some other interaction makes it do something else. The alternative model in which gravity is a force mediated by the graviton seems to have even more problems than the curved space-time model.
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gravity isn't a force, at least not to me.
Gravity is the affect of the bending of space time due to massive objects.
Also thought that specifying gravitational mass over inertial to be relevant as we were all just knit-picking.
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@Backstop
well this is heading into semantics but gravity is a force and mass is a property of matter. We don't refer to the Coulomb force as a property of charge...