Things You Thought You Knew – Where the Sun Don’t Shine
StarTalk Radio
The Equivalence Principle
Einstein's equivalence principle is one of the deepest, most brilliant ideas ever advanced in the history of physics. If you did that in a box with no windows, you would not be able to tell if you were on Earth or accelerating through space at 1G. The acceleration of gravity is 32 feet per second per second. And so yeah, there's no micro nothing. It is zero freaking G. Paris. There you go. Zero G. This was fun. You gotta love it.
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