Radiation from a Uniformly Accelerated Charge and the Equivalence Principle

Foundations of Physics 32 (3):407-440 (2002)
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We argue that purely local experiments can distinguish a stationary charged particle in a static gravitational field from an accelerated particle in (gravity-free) Minkowski space. Some common arguments to the contrary are analyzed and found to rest on a misidentification of “energy.”

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10.1023/a:1014861329235

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