Gravity isn’t a force?

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My coworker told me gravity isn’t a force it’s an effect mass has on space time, like falling into a hole or something. We’re not physicists, I don’t understand.

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It’s very much a force in that a mass can distort space-time around it. And another mass passing through that space is affected by that distortion. So the force isn’t exerted between the masses directly (although that can be a handy shortcut way to look at it), but indirectly through space-time.

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