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Prize-Winning Essays for the Annual Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation for the Year 2008No Access

GRAVITY: THE INSIDE STORY

T. PADMANABHAN

IUCAA, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune — 411 007, India

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271808014114Cited by:3 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

It is well known that one could determine the kinematics of gravity by using the Principle of Equivalence and local inertial frames. I describe how the dynamics of gravity can be similarly understood by suitable thought experiments in a local Rindler frame. This approach puts in proper context several unexplained features of gravity and describes the dynamics of space–time in a broader setting than in Einstein's theory.

This essay was awarded the 1st Prize in the 2008 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation. Original publication: T. Padmanabhan, Gen. Relativ. Gravit.40 (2008) 2031. Publication of this version with kind permission by Springer Science + Business Media, LLC.

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