Radiation from a Uniformly Accelerated Charge and the Equivalence Principle

Abstract

We argue that purely local experiments can distinguish a stationary charged particle in a static gravitational field from an accelerated particle in (gravity-free) Minkowski space. Some common arguments to the contrary are analyzed and found to rest on a misidentification of ``energy''.

Comments: LaTeX, 31 pages, 2 figures (also in LaTeX). Appendix 4, discussing subsequent work of others, has been rewritten. To appear in Foundations of Physics