Two Accelerating Clocks: A Relativistic Thought Experiment

• Adam Neat ^[1]
  1. [1] Joseph City High School
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 60, Nº. 1, 2022, págs. 58-61
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Gravity bends light. One can argue this by reasoning that a beam of light should travel in a curved path when viewed from within an accelerating frame of reference, and then invoking Einstein’s principle of equivalence, which asserts that the effects observed in an accelerating frame of reference are indistinguishable from the effects observed in a uniform gravitational field. If light bends in an accelerating reference frame, it must also bend in a gravitational field.