illusion of equivalence principle

Posted by ryojifurui on February 16, 2004 at 03:36:28:

Hi all,

I once posted a comment that free falling is in the acceleration system just before. Ifd like to say it once again clearly. It would be correct that a person in a space ship canft tell the difference between (A) an apple falling down in a rocket ship landing on the earth and (B) an apple falling down in a rocket ship accelerating upwards at just the right rate of 9.8 m/s^2. However I think there is the difference like below.

In the case of A, an apple is in the acceleration system and a rocket ship is in the inertia system. On the other hand, in the case of B, an apple is in the inertia system and a rocket ship is in the acceleration system.

As the result, we could find the difference between A and B by seeing the graviton (massless particle which carries kinetic energy) beam horizontally across in a rocket with (Af) the heavier gravitational field and with (Bf) the higher acceleration engine. In the case of Af, a person in a rocket would see the beam crossing horizontally. And in the case Bf, the beam would follow a curved path downward.

This is a different result from Einsteinfs equivalence principle however it could be possible to be considered.

Ryoji

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