It does not ‘stop’ gravity. It counters the force of it. Airplane wings don’t ‘stop’ gravity either. They just provide a force that counters it for a while.
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Since we’re correcting people, gravity is a curvature of spacetime, not a force.
“gravity is a curvature of spacetime, not a force.”
Oh? How would you define ‘force’ then?
The common physics definition, “any interaction that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object” seems to cover what I said, “the force of [gravity]” which per common grammar means the force which gravity cause to occur.