Why is gravity still described as a “force” when Einstein described it as the curvature of spacetime?

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Gravity- it’s known as the “weakest fundamental force”, but we know the “attraction” is really just objects falling along the curvature of space toward a more massive object. I don’t understand how this explanation of gravity relates to the other fundamental forces.

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Because in our day to day life and even up to high level physics (either really really huge or really really small scale), it works just fine to think of it as a force.

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