Re: 4 + clock

From: Daniel Weston (daniel009_at_webtv.net)
Date: 02/14/05


Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:51:59 -0800

For reasons I do not quite understand, gravity slows a clock, but
acceleration does not. Can anybody utilize this fact to design an
experiment that the rocket ship traveler could use to determine whether
he was accelerating or in a gravity field?

  

                              
                                

                                                                                                  

                                                           
                                                   
                         

                                

     
                                                                       

               



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