If gravity is curvature of space, and everything is traveling in a straight line in the curved space, then why do two objects traveling with different speed in same direction from same point take different trajectory?
Q2) Curvature explains orbiting satellites, but then how does simple falling of objects is described?
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Think about putting a golf ball across the side of a hill. The harder you hit the ball, the less its path will seem to curve. The slope is “pulling” on the ball equally hard no matter what, but the faster the ball is going, the less time the slope has to “pull” on it before it gets to the other side.
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