Actually the person I’m responding to is someone who’s evidently struggling with basic sun facts:https://twitter.com/eristae/status/1289646827696881665?s=21 …
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It sounds absurd to us to say that there's no difference between accelerating in a tiny space capsule that pushes you against the "floor" at 9.8 m/s^2 with a powerful rocket engine and just standing on a whole-ass planet holding us down at 9.8 m/s^2 by being a massive rock
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But Einstein's whole project with general relativity was to prove that mathematically, these are the same, and if they are mathematically equivalent then for this purpose they actually ARE the same, and see what consequences arise from that
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That fact that this is true still twists my noodle. The universe is freaking bizarre and I love it.
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