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lalbatros
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Hello,
I read this:
on this site: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/cosmology/gravity.html
Honestly I cannot understand that.
I have read the famous Gravitation by Wheeler and "Classical theory of fields" by Landau, and I know some of the motivations for going to GR from SR. I can imagine that strong gravitational fields or strong accelerations are a limit to the theory. Or even that gravitation doesn't fit well in the STR.
But is that not a bit exagerated to say that:
What are the facts?
Thanks for your ideas.
I read this:
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity is valid for systems that are not accelerating.
on this site: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/cosmology/gravity.html
Honestly I cannot understand that.
I have read the famous Gravitation by Wheeler and "Classical theory of fields" by Landau, and I know some of the motivations for going to GR from SR. I can imagine that strong gravitational fields or strong accelerations are a limit to the theory. Or even that gravitation doesn't fit well in the STR.
But is that not a bit exagerated to say that:
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity is valid for systems that are not accelerating.
What are the facts?
Thanks for your ideas.