Horace Heffner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> AFLIK, GR presupposes that there is no difference between >> acceleration and gravity, > > This is a false assumption many people make. GR only actually assumes > there is no difference at any given *point*. It is easy to theoretically > distinguish between gravity, linear acceleration due to force, and angular > accleration due to a centripetal force, by the nature of the tidal effects.
GR treats all forms of acceleration as indistinguishable from gravity. The truth is GR is absolutely devoid of common sense. That is the power *and* the poverty of GR. Harry
