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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The problem is that we do not know as a fact that gravity works as General Relativity describes, it could be that this is a remarkably good analogy and that the true mechanism acting at the quantum level manifests itself to us in this analagous form that is accurate enough for almost all purposes (except explaining things that we need dark matter and dark energy for)

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