From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!lime!we13!otuxa!ll1!ihldt!ihnp4!iheds!gjphw
Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: Re: General Relativity Paradox (?)
Article-I.D.: iheds.212
Posted: Mon Feb 21 13:01:36 1983
Received: Tue Feb 22 05:11:46 1983
Reply-To: gjphw@iheds.UUCP (Not really, but: Patrick Wyant)
References: sri-arpa.453 aluxz.1107 alice.1508 aluxz.1108


   Most of the comments of late about General Relativity (often called
Einstein Theory to distinguish it from other relativity theories) mention
what GR says.  The equivalence between mechanics in a gravitational field
and in accelerating reference frames is an assumption in Einstein Theory and
not a consequence of it.  And, since Einstein Theory has received only
three significant tests (passing them all quite well, though), this
equivalence assumption may still not be valid.

                                               Patrick Wyant
                                               Bell Labs IH
                                               *!iheds!gjphw