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Originally Posted by iceworks
I understand the theory but it doesn't pass the commensense test.?
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In Einstein's words:
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
If one becomes a little bit familiar with the theory, it makes a lot more common sense than a Newtionian action-at-a-distance gravitational force. The curved spacetime concept is very natural one - it even
feels right. The pull of gravity on my body pressed against a support on the surface of our planet feels just like going around a corner, a
curve in the road, in a vehicle travelling at considerable speed. And zero gravity or freefall feels like free unimpeded motion, like the uniform straight line motion of the old Newtonian inertial frame.