Quote: straight-line motion in a curved space-time is that motion which maximizes the elapsed time of an object over some fixed local time

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For which path and schedule will your watch … [when traveling between two points in some fixed local time]? The answer is that you will spend the longest time … along a straight line. Reason: Any extra motions … The point of all this is that we … "Straight-line" motion … is then that motion which takes a watch … gives the longest time reading for the watch. …   Google-1   Google-2

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