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← ScienceWhich effect is observed when an accelerating rocket's frame replicates gravity?
A)Photons experience gravitational redshift✓
B)Inertial mass remains invariant.
C)Spacetime curvature is unaffected.
D)Quantum entanglement is instantaneously disrupted.
💡 Explanation
Gravitational redshift happens because the equivalence principle asserts that acceleration and gravity have equivalent observable effects; therefore, light loses energy climbing the 'gravitational potential' of acceleration, rather than other effects happening that would require more specialized experiments.
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