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Is the description of the gravitational force as a manifestation of deviation of a body from the geodesic the correct interpretation of the general relativity theory?

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A deeper analysis connected to general relativity is presented, considering dynamics of a solid body in a gravitational field. Two basic situations are described: namely, the case of weightlessness in free fall, and that when a solid body at rest relative to the source of the gravitational field has weight. Finally, the principle of equivalence is reformulated.

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  • Misner, C. W., Thorne, K. S., and Wheeler, J. A.: 1973,Gravitation, W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco.

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    Pavel Voráček

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Voráček, P. Is the description of the gravitational force as a manifestation of deviation of a body from the geodesic the correct interpretation of the general relativity theory?. Astrophys Space Sci 133, 393–395 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00642497

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