Gravity: Why Do things fall to Earth?

Question

If gravity is in reality spacetime geometry why when I drop an object on the surface of the Earth does it fall to the ground? Does spacetime push it?

Answer 1

What is exactly your thinking behind "gravity is space-time geometry"?

In layman's terms, general relativity tells us that a particle with some defined mass will curve space-time, causing a gravitational attraction to be felt by the objects around it. When you drop an object on the surface of the Earth, the curvature of space-time caused by the large mass of the Earth, relative to the small mass of the object, causes it to be attracted by gravity and fall to the ground.

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