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    Free fall as geodesic motion is the foundational principl... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler's treatment in Gravitation establishes that the vanishing of the absolute derivative of the 4-velocity is an invariant, frame-independent condition defining free fall.

    Free fall as geodesic motion is the foundational principle of general relativity; MTW rigorously derives this from the vanishing covariant derivative of 4-velocity.

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