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Sun 19 Nov, 2017 10:18 pm
If you stand on a scale in an elevator does your weight increase when the elevator goes up? It must. You're pressed to the floor.
So acceleration induces gravity. And so does Earth? What gives?
@Boilly,
Any simplified account of Einstein's thought experiment about elevators will give you an answer. e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity
BUT
What tends to happen on this forum is that somebody is likely to do that reading for you, followed by denials by some anti Einstein crackpots. No doubt 'quantum gravity' references could also put in an appearance which tend to deconstruct lay concepts of 'reality making you even more confused !
@Boilly,
Boilly wrote:So acceleration induces gravity.
Acceleration doesn't induce gravity. It's more like gravity is a special form of acceleration.
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