{"id":667,"date":"2008-08-19T03:50:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T08:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=667"},"modified":"2008-08-19T03:50:31","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T08:50:31","slug":"equivalent-to-pigs-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/667","title":{"rendered":"Equivalent to Pigs Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bee explains <a href=\"http:\/\/backreaction.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/equivalence-principle.html\">The Equivalence Principle<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That is what Einstein explains in his thought experiment with the elevator. If you are standing in the elevator (that is just a local patch, theoretically infinitesimally small) you can&#8217;t tell whether you are pulled down because there is a planet underneath your feet, or because there is a flying pig pulling up the elevator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bee explains The Equivalence Principle That is what Einstein explains in his thought experiment with the elevator. If you are standing in the elevator (that is just a local patch, theoretically infinitesimally small) you can&#8217;t tell whether you are pulled &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/667\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}