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The equivalence principle links acceleration and gravity by stating that sufficiently local experiments in a freely falling laboratory cannot distinguish free fall in a gravitational field from inertial motion without gravity.
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02
In a small freely falling elevator, objects float together because they share the same gravitational acceleration; locally gravity can be transformed away.