principle of equivalence
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Either the principle of equivalence is not correct, or light does not always travel in straight lines.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
Let’s suppose the principle of equivalence is right.
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
If a future experiment should demonstrate that antiparticles do have a negative gravitational mass, it will deliver a mortal blow to the entire relativistic theory of gravity by disproving the principle of equivalence.
From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2011
There were thus discovered, by translating the principle of equivalence, numerical relations between the magnitudes of electricity, for instance, and the magnitudes of mechanics.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien
