Effect of acceleration on space-time fabric

[mite]

i studied somewhere that acceleration and gravity are equavalent .does acceleration produce ripples in space-time just like mass?

 

[Fredrik]

No. The equivalence is not like that at all. I don't know how to explain it better than with this example: Suppose you have clocks on the floor and ceiling of a rocket that's doing Born rigid acceleration in flat spacetime. If you calculate the relative ticking rates of the clocks, the result you get is also going to be the relative ticking rates of clocks on the floor and ceiling of a room that's stationary in a homogeneous gravitational field.

So what the equivalence principle says is that you can do certain calculations involving acceleration in flat spacetime and interpret the result as predictions about curved spacetime (or vice versa, but that would usually be much more difficult).

 

[Entropia]

Yes, according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, acceleration and gravity are equivalent. This means that the effects of acceleration on the space-time fabric are similar to the effects of mass. Just like mass, acceleration can cause ripples or distortions in the fabric of space-time. This is known as the "gravitational wave" phenomenon, where the acceleration of massive objects, such as black holes, produces ripples in space-time that can be detected by sensitive instruments. Therefore, it can be said that acceleration does indeed produce ripples in space-time, just like mass does. This is one of the key concepts in understanding the relationship between acceleration and gravity in the context of general relativity.