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On 2002-10-03 18:43, xriso wrote:
In general relativity, I don't know how this whole thing works, but I would guess that the "moving in straight lines" is more precisely "moving along a geodesic". Maybe.
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That's pretty much it. Any freely falling object moves along a geodesic. And in that reference frame (this sometimes called a free float frame), special relativity applies locally.