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

Question

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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Answer 1

It produces a force. That is an acceleration in a given direction.

In reality it’s a “Fictitious force” or “apparent force”, but for every day people you don’t need to worry about it. It only comes into play in certain areas of high level physics.

For everyone else, you can just consider it a force, it’s fine.