Acceleration Posted by Nick on 24-Jul-2006 - Day(s) left: 6334
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This prediction is about Einstein's Equivalence principle where Einstein equated accelerated motion with gravity. How can something that is not moving be equated to something that is? What is moving will have a rate. A blasting rocket has weight that depends on its rate of acceleration. But that same rocket sitting on the launch pad how can it have a rate of change? It's not moving. The equivalence principle is two parted. Each part is not the same. Weight in the blasting rocket is not calculated exactly the same as weight in gravity.
Take the time rate out of calculating weight in gravity and you have it. Free fall will always have a rate IE it has a motion. It has a rate of change. The equivalence is not what Einstein thought. They are equivalent but not mathematically identical. One has a rate the other doesn't. Only acceleration is equivalent to a rate of change of velocity. Gravity isn't. It is equivalent to change of velocity alone. This means that there is a limit to gravitational force. But none for accelerated motion. This is the shape of gravity theory to come.
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