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According to Einstein’s principle of equivalence, whatever effect acceleration had on the clocks in the spaceship, the effect of gravity must be the same. So when I place a large planet at the foot of our Shard-sized spaceship, the impact is the same as if the spaceship was accelerating through space: clocks run slower at the foot of the Shard than they do at the top.
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What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge
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