Equivalence Principle for Massive Bodies. II. Theory

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May 1968

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Physical Review, vol. 169, Issue 5, pp. 1017-1025

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The acceleration of a massive body in an external field for general space-time geometrical gravitational theories is obtained. The condition on the metric is such that mgmi=1 is obtained, and we reobtain the result that mgmi=1 in Einstein's theory for massive objects with time-independent internal structure. But it is shown that a measurement of mgmi for astronomical bodies would measure space-time metric components which have not been measured in other gravitational experiments. In the scalar-tensor gravitational theory due to Brans and Dicke, it is shown that mgmi differs from 1 by a term of the order of the massive body's gravitational self-energy divided by its total energy.

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