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Re:The theory of relativity in words of four letters or less by ars on Friday May 17, 2013 @03:49PM (#5726370)
If you have a rocket on your feet why do you need to drop something to figure out if you are accelerating? You can feel the pressure on your feet.

The only type of acceleration that is undetectable is gravity - and gravity will effect the dropped object exactly as much as you.

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Re:The theory of relativity in words of four letters or less by Dylan16807 on Friday May 17, 2013 @07:05PM (#5727134)
Great! You just simplified the experiment!

Dropping something was only one idea, but feeling pressure is much simpler.

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