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We have not previously encountered the strong equivalence principle before, which states that particles move on the geodesics of a curved space-time manifold \(\mathcal {M}\) regardless of the nature of the particle under consideration (in the limit where we ignore the back-reaction of the particle energy on the metric). This can be stated in words by saying that gravity is equivalent to curvature of space-time.
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Lüst, D., Vleeshouwers, W. (2019). General Relativity. In: Black Hole Information and Thermodynamics. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10919-6_4
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