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Equation 70 · Part 1 · The Bend an Elevator Cannot Fake

Symbol g

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What this part means

the observer under constant proper acceleration.

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g is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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Consider a uniformly accelerated laboratory in otherwise empty, flat spacetime — Einstein’s elevator, given by the exact Rindler metric in coordinates comoving with an observer under constant proper acceleration g :

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Consider a uniformly accelerated laboratory in otherwise empty, flat spacetime — Einstein’s elevator, given by the exact Rindler metric in coordinates comoving with an observer under constant proper acceleration g :

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