Nonequivalence of equivalence principles

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Of course, this is applicable only to physical laws which can be formulated in an entirely local way, so one must be very cautious when dealing, e.g., with quantum field theory in a curved spacetime, whose formulation relies on the

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For a different opinion, see G. Muñoz and P. Jones, “The equivalence principle, uniformly accelerated reference frames, and the uniform gravitational field”,

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T. Padmanabhan,

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More generally, a survey of the conceptual difficulties encountered by students when learning about the equivalence principle is found in A. Bandyopadhyay and A. Kumar, “Probing students’ ideas of the principle of equivalence”,

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This view has been recently challenged in J. O. Weatherall, “On the status of the geodesic principle in Newtonian and relativistic physics”,

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