Volume 18: Pages 139-149, 2005

Questions Related to Hong's Idealized Experiments of a Free‐Falling Cabin: Can Einstein's Equivalence Principle Really Stand?

L. Hong

45 Weijiu Road, Jinan 250021 Shandong, People's Republic of China

In this article questions related to Hong's idealized experiments negating Einstein's assertion that gravity can be eliminated in a cabin falling freely in a homogeneous gravitational field are discussed.

Keywords: Einstein's equivalence principle, local uniform gravitational field, idealized experiments of a free‐falling cabin, curved space‐time, general relativity

Received: June 1, 2006; Published online: December 15, 2008