Timeline for How is falling into the Earth while orbiting it a geodesic?
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| Apr 11 at 0:06 | vote | accept | Roghan Arun | ||
| Apr 11 at 0:05 | vote | accept | Roghan Arun | ||
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| Apr 8 at 3:44 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | @Milton The system is radiating energy-momentum, so the geodesics are changing. | |
| Apr 7 at 17:23 | comment | added | Rich | As long as the object is in free fall (no external forces) it will follow a geodesic. A geodesic is the equivalent of a straight line (the shortest distance between two points) when spacetime is curved , but it is definitely not straight. | |
| Apr 7 at 17:10 | comment | added | Roghan Arun | So doesn't that mean that free falling objects don't actually follow geodesics even without drag from atmosphere. So only objects moving in straight line with no gravity are truly following geodesics then? | |
| Apr 7 at 16:21 | history | edited | Rich | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 7 at 16:16 | history | answered | Rich | CC BY-SA 4.0 |