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  Re: Physics, relativity, quantum, etc.  
From: clipka
Date: 22 Jan 2009 13:40:01
Message: <web.4978bd29c995525dbdc576310@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>   The foundation of GR is that gravity does not, in fact, cause
> acceleration at all. An object in "free wall" is all about inertia
> and nothing about acceleration (even though it may not look like it
> to us).

From the viewpoint of a free-falling(!) "actor", gravity is actually absent,
yes. It has no effect whatsoever - it's just that That Big Black Hole Over
There keeps accelerating towards *him*, badly mangling spacetime as it does.


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