Abstract
Are inertial forces of gravitational origin? The standard geometric interpretation of the general theory of relativity may be employed to show that inertial effects cannot be caused by the gravitational influence of distant masses. The same would hold in any metric theory of gravity that combines local Lorentz invariance with Newtonian gravitation as in general relativity. In fact, the status of the origin of translational inertial accelerations in the relativistic theory of gravitation is similar to that in Newtonian mechanics.
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