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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I posed a similar question to one of my physics professors. His answer was that an idealized version of the experiment would not compare an accelerating spaceship with the Earth, but would compare an accelerating spaceship with an "infinite plane (or slab) of uniform mass density".