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Einstein - The Path to General Relativity

Einstein - The Path to General Relativity

Was it amazing luck or was it amazing insight? Whichever it was, at some point Einstein realized..

At a given point in space it’s impossible to distinguish between the effects of gravity and the effects of acceleration.

So, when he was trying to generalize Special Relativity to accelerating frames of reference he got an incredible bonus.. gravity suddenly appeared.. and General Relativity became a theory of gravity.

The rest is history.

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