A Qualitative Outline of General Relativity and Space-time curvature

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Baron Roland von Eotvos (after such experiments have been named) has checked experimentally by Galileo, Newton, and Friedrich Bessel and in the early 20th century the principle's validity. If an observer were to ride in an elevator falling freely in a gravitational field, then all bodies inside the elevator, because they are falling at the same rate, would consequently move uniformly in straight lines as if gravity had vanished...
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If an observer were to ride in an elevator falling freely in a gravitational field, then all bodies inside the elevator, because they are falling at the same rate, would consequently move uniformly in straight lines as if gravity had vanished. On the contrary, in an accelerated elevator in free space, bodies would fall with the same acceleration (because of their inertia), just as if there were a gravitational field...
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