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It is not the case that The inertial structure supervenes on the distribution of matter-energy, so if anything causes dynamical inequivalence, it is matter, not geometry.
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Spacetime geometry can differ while matter-energy distribution remains identical, as shown by Gödel and Kerr spacetimes.
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If geometry merely supervenes on matter, gravitational lensing becomes matter acting on matter—yet geometry provides simpler explanations.
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Supervenience requires dependence but not reduction; geometry may be causally relevant even if it supervenes on matter-energy.
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Matter-energy distribution is the only causally efficacious entity; geometric properties are abstract structural descriptions of it.
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In general relativity, the Einstein field equations show matter-energy as the source, with geometry as the dependent solution variable.
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Dynamical inequivalence (different trajectories) requires a physical difference; matter distribution provides this; geometry alone cannot.
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