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Caption: The person in the spaceship has no experimental or intuitive means of distinguishing whether he is motionless on the surface of the Earth or in space accelerating at a rate equivalent to 1 Earth gravity. The implication of this is that the acceleration due to motion and that due to gravity are equivalent, which in turn implies that space is curved in the presence of a gravitational field.

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