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As I understand it, in GR acceleration is indistinguishable* from gravity, so while you're on the ground feeling 1 gee, you're being accelerated up at 1 gee, and so is the ground.

When you're in free-fall, that's when you're in a non-accelerating frame, even though a non-relativistic description** would say that you are, in fact, accelerating.

Caveat: I only do physics as a hobby, neither academically nor professionally, so take with appropriate degree of doubt.

* for point-like observers at least

** ignoring rotation and curved orbits



That is incorrect. Acceleration generates a force that is indistinguishable from gravity (and vice versa) but that does not mean they are the same thing.




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