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Accelerated Frames and Gravitation

Extends special-relativistic reasoning to accelerated motion and concludes that gravitation must alter measurements of time, frequency and the propagation of light.

Albert Einstein photographed in Princeton in 1947
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Accelerated Frames and Gravitation

1907 · Bern · United States of America · Physics

Extends special-relativistic reasoning to accelerated motion and concludes that gravitation must alter measurements of time, frequency and the propagation of light.