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Aescorvo t1_j0gh3zo wrote

Reply to comment by alukyane in Does rotation break relativity? by starfyredragon

I didn’t say it wasn’t accelerating.

Maybe I guessed wrong at what part you thought was weird. There’s no different between freefall and zero gravity. Although, for the special case of an orbit there are slight differences you can detect at different heights.

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Game_Minds t1_j0grywh wrote

Can't all sublight paths through a relativistic spacetime be characterized as orbits? Even in intergalactic space objects' paths are curved by gravity. There would still be slight angular accelerations on basically any "straight" path even if they even out over time

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