General Relativity Jeopardy

Equivalence Principle

Spacetime Diagrams Black Holes Curved Space

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The effects of gravity are exactly equivalent to the effects of acceleration.

Rocket ship on the left is floating free in space; one on the right is accelerating at 1 g. The person on the right feels this.

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The reason the person on the left feels weightless.

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According to general relativity, a black hole is this.

We would see a strong gravitational redshift of light near a black hole because of this running more slowly.

This happens to you well before you even reach the event horizon.

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One way we can get more bending in spacetime.

The explanation for the Einstein cross.

The speed at which gravitywaves travel.

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One of the goals of GravityProbe B was to measure this.

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