Albert Einstein1907
Einstein recognised that an observer in sufficiently small free fall can describe local physics without an apparent gravitational force, an insight that became central to his equivalence principle.
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Einstein recognised that an observer in sufficiently small free fall can describe local physics without an apparent gravitational force, an insight that became central to his equivalence principle.
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