Abstract:It is often stated that in free falling systems, locally, the effects of gravity can be ‘transformed away’.
This statement is part of many, even authoritative, versions of the so-called ‘Strong Equivalence Principle’.
Gravitational effects, however, cannot be completely ‘transformed away’ in free falling systems.
In fact, it is well known and generally remarked in the literature that there are (usually tiny) gravitational effects related to the second derivatives of the components of th… Show more
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