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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Sorry OP, like u/G4m5t3r said, a good answer to your question would earn the person providing it a Nobel Prize. It’s a great question because you’re right. The missing graviton does make gravity different. Maybe we’ll discover it and the question is resolved, but we haven’t yet because it might not exist at all, and many of the smartest people in physics are wondering basically the same thing you are.

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