[cyberax]

> Yes. I've seen lots of twitter/X posts lately about how Gravity is not actually a force.

That is true. Classically, gravity is a fictitious force, merely a result of inertia from moving in a curved space-time.

> But how can that be true if there is a force carrying "gravity" particle? Or is the word 'force' being used loosely here?

Because we _suspect_ that the classical view is not correct. And there's a quantum description that may or may not involve curved space-time.

It's not impossible that the spacetime curvature is a mathematical artifact of a deeper theory. Merely a kinematic explanation, just like epicycles.

It's also possible that the space-time _is_ really curved, and gravitons simply cause the curvature by somehow coupling with it. And then other matter experiences this, in the manner described above.