Re:Physicists used atomic clocks to test the theory of gener...
by moefh on Sunday June 10, 2018 @05:32PM
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> special means without accelerated reference frames
That's something a lot of people say, but it's not strictly true. Special Relativity is fully capable of describing acceleration in a flat (Minkowski) spacetime[1].
General Relativity is only really needed when there's curvature in the spacetime (gravity).
That's something a lot of people say, but it's not strictly true. Special Relativity is fully capable of describing acceleration in a flat (Minkowski) spacetime[1].
General Relativity is only really needed when there's curvature in the spacetime (gravity).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceleration_(special_relativi...