Abstract

For those who study or are interested in the mechanics and nuances of gravity, this paper may well give you something to chew on.
In all likelihood the new NOBOX approach will allow greater openness and empirical examination of previously unchallenged positions.
This paper presents a falsifiable interpretation of how humans perceive gravity, distinguishing between the imposition of external forces on the body as physical cause, and the human experience as a sensation of diverging from the natural geodesic a body follows. 
According to an AI Overview, the General Relativistic (GR) definition of gravity is:
"A consequence [manifestation] of the curved geometry of space/time caused by mass and energy.
Massive objects curve the fabric of spacetime around them, and other bodies then follow the curves in this warped spacetime, which we perceive as gravity."
NOTE!   This definition does NOT cite the actual curvature of the fabric of space/time as the definition of gravity, it cites gravity as a consequence of the geometry/curvature.
It declares that the ACTION of FOLLOWING the curvature is how gravity is imparted.
"Matter tells space/time how to curve and space/time tells matter how to move."   John A. Wheeler
".. .. space/time tells matter how to move."
Yet, this is factually inaccurate as will be discussed below.

Adding to this GR definition, these "curves in the warped fabric of space/time" are known as 'geodesics'.
A geodesic describes a means of guidance, not as fully constrained, but one which can be affected by external forces.. 
It is a noun or adjective, NOT a verb/adverb.
Bodies follow geodesics, when no external force is exerted upon them, not because space/time is curved, not due to an internal or external force, but because they are the straightest, shortest paths (geometrics) of least resistance between two points in curved/warped space/time.
It would seem self-evident that matter follows the straightest, shortest path (a geodesic), fulfilling the 1st Law of Thermodynamics, a.k.a. Conservation of Energy (CoE), for the very reason that energy MUST be conserved by taking the path of least resistance.
More simply put, geodesics contradict the notion that "curved space/time tells matter how to move", for the very reason that geodesics are NOT curved, but rather the straightest, shortest paths of least resistance in or through the metric of space/time, allowed, governed, or given.
Describing curvature of space/time as the "straightest (available) path" is not a linguistic anomaly, it is a lazy and scientifically inarticulate expression. 
The curvature of a geodesic complies with the natural law CoE.
That's it.  
This definition of gravity was proposed by Albert Einstein in his 1915 paper documenting General Relativity (GR), seemingly without  recognition of the 1st Law of Thermodynamics (CoE) or physical laws.
He was influenced in this determination by what he called the "happiest moment of his life", in which he realized that a person falling off a roof would not be able to distinguish between falling (from the roof) and the sensation of a free-fall, or weightlessness.
That led to his belief that no experiment could reveal if a person were inside a stationary elevator resting on Earth, or being accelerated (at a velocity matching Earth's  gravitational force), in deep space.
In fact, he dubbed this his Equivalency Principle (henceforth Einstein Equivalency Principle - EEP in this paper), making it the backbone of GR.