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Does a body accelerating at 1g in outer space create a gravitational field around it ?
Presumably the body has some mass, and every mass has a gravitational field, so yes. We can plug the mass into Newton's gravitational law ##F=Gm_1m_2/r^2## to see the effect of its gravitational field.BigyanAdhikari said:Does a body accelerating at 1g in outer space create a gravitational field around it ?
If we choose to treat the accelerating body as being at rest and adopt an accelerating frame of reference in which it is at rest, the result is (locally) indistinguishable from a gravitational field. That is the equivalence principle.BigyanAdhikari said:Does a body accelerating at 1g in outer space create a gravitational field around it ?