Abstract
Aristotle and Newton held that things fall because they are pulled to the earth; Nâgasana the sage and Einstein, that they fall because nothing stops them from falling. The difference is a profound one.
Nâgasena: Well, O king, will sticks and clods and cudgels and clubs find a resting-place in the air, in the same way as they do on the ground?
Milinda: No, Sir.
Nâgasena: But what is the reason why they come to rest on the earth, when they will not stand in the air?
Milinda: There is no cause in the air for their stability, and without a cause they will not stand.
The Questions of King Milinda
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Dodson, C.T.J., Poston, T. (1991). General Relativity. In: Tensor Geometry. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10514-2_13
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