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A FEW INFERENCES
FROM THE GENERAL
PRINCIPLE OF
RELATIVITY
The considerations of Section 20 show that the general principle
of relativity puts us in a position to derive properties of the
gravitational feld in a purely theoretical manner. Let us suppose,
for instance, that we know the space-time course for any natural
process whatsoever, as regards the manner in which it takes
place in the Galileian domain relative to a Galileian body of
reference K. By means of purely theoretical operations (i.e. simply
by calculation) we are then able to fnd how this known
natural process appears, as seen from a reference-body Kwhich
is accelerated relatively to K.