Submitted by starfyredragon t3_zmt3lg in askscience
Aescorvo t1_j0gs39z wrote
Reply to comment by Alis451 in Does rotation break relativity? by starfyredragon
Actually, let me amend what I said. Without looking out the window (metaphorically) you couldn’t tell. However, if you had a clock on board, and and an identical clock far enough away that it was effectively in zero gravity, AND you could view it through a telescope each revolution, you would (eventually) see that the clock runs faster than yours. That would at least tell you that it was experiencing lower gravity than you were.
This is akin to one of the effects that we have to account for with GPS satellites. Putting a clock in orbit (with a big enough display) would let us see the discrepancy compared to an identical clock on the surface, deeper in the gravity well.
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