principle of equivalence
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Let’s suppose the principle of equivalence is right.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
Either the principle of equivalence is not correct, or light does not always travel in straight lines.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
Either information can be lost after all; Einstein’s principle of equivalence is wrong; or quantum field theory, which describes how elementary particles and forces interact, is wrong and needs fixing.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2013
Thus, concluded Einstein, if the principle of equivalence holds in all of physics, light rays from distant stars that pass close to the sun on their way to the earth should bend toward the sun.
From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2011
His memoir, now celebrated, did not produce any great sensation, and it had almost fallen into deep oblivion, which, in consequence of the discovery of the principle of equivalence, might have seemed perfectly justified.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien
