Fermi coordinates transport a local frame along a timelike worldline. Along a timelike geodesic, a parallel-transported orthonormal frame defines Fermi normal coordinates in which the metric tensor is Minkowskian and the Christoffel symbols vanish on the worldline. Curvature first appears in terms quadratic in the spatial distance from it, so finite laboratories retain tidal forces.
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