Einstein Seminar

Light in Gravitational Field

Section Twenty-Two


In this section, Einstein draws some consequences from the General Principle of Relativity (or more specifically, from the equivalence between a gravitational field and an accelerated system). The upshot is that light is deflected in a gravitational field.


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