Equivalence Principle and Red-Shift Measurements

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Dec 1960

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American Journal of Physics, Volume 28, Issue 9, pp. 778-780 (1960).

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Two questions are discussed. The first asks whether experiments on accelerated systems (e.g., red-shifts produced in rotating disks) can serve to verify the general theory of relativity. The answer is ``no.'' The second asks to what extent the special theory of relativity and the principle of equivalence determine the well-known effects of the general theory of relativity. It is important to formulate this question very carefully because special relativity and the equivalence principle do not form a consistent theoretical system. If this is done, then the answer is that the equivalence principle leads to the same gravitational red-shift as general relativity but does not lead to specific values for the bending of light rays by a star or for the perihelion rotation of a planetary orbit.

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