Equivalence Principle Misunderstanding?

[yuiop]

Hi I have related question. Were the Rindler coordinates developed in GR from the equations there and then exported to an accelerating system in SR or is it the other way around?
I thought I read that the gamma relation to potential altitude was derived from calculations in the context of SR and were part of the process of formulating GR?.
Thanks

I did a internet search but failed to find a single reference to when Rindler actually introduced his coordinate system. If they had been developed before Einstein introduced GR in 1915, they would have provided a clue to expect a coordinate singularity or event horizon for a black hole in the GR solutions. Personally I find it fascinating that SR and the equivalence principle predicts event horizons. Unfortunately, the role of Rindler coordinates in the development of GR does not seem to get much of a mention in the historical records (or I am looking in the wrong places).

 

[yuiop]

I think that uniform means that the field corresponds to the field which would be considered uniform historically, I.e. In Newtonian gravity. They didn't attempt to reconcile it here, merely presented it as an accepted meaning.

I have been wondering if a uniform field implies a field in which neighbouring vertical lines (as measured by plumb bobs) are parallel?

 

[DrGreg]

I did a internet search but failed to find a single reference to when Rindler actually introduced his coordinate system. If they had been developed before Einstein introduced GR in 1915, they would have provided a clue to expect a coordinate singularity or event horizon for a black hole in the GR solutions. Personally I find it fascinating that SR and the equivalence principle predicts event horizons. Unfortunately, the role of Rindler coordinates in the development of GR does not seem to get much of a mention in the historical records (or I am looking in the wrong places).

Rindler coordinates are named after Wolfgang Rindler who wasn't even born until 1924, but (if the entirely unsourced Wikipedia article is to be believed(?)) was the person who invented the term "event horizon".

 

[atyy]

I'm uncertain about terminology - I believe Rindler in his GR textbook says that Rindler coordinates are not a "uniform" "gravitational field".