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The role of geodesic in General Relativity.
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A geodesic is the shortest distance between two points. The notion of geodesics helps generalize the concept of straight line of
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The path followed by the particles, which is not accelerating, is a geodesic. This path will be a length minimizing curve.In the sphere this path is circular and in the plane it is a straight line.
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