The Uniform Acceleration of Falling Objects Depends on Rock the Psychologist's Work on Induced Motion and Induced Rest

Galileo’s principle has no explanation on its own. Instead, it finds its explanation in Einstein’s principle of equivalence. The principle of equivalence depends on Rock the psychologist’s theoretical and experimental work on induced motion and induced rest. The principle of equivalence depends on perceptual and cognitive factors investigated by Rock and others, all of which have not been seriously considered by physicists. The general theory of relativity which relies on the principle of equivalence, and indeed the special theory of relativity, depend on these perceptual and cognitive factors and on the relativity of an observer seeing himself at rest or instead in motion. The principle of equivalence does not work without an accelerating human observer who sees himself at rest in an inertial reference frame in a gravitational field. Einstein accomplished this through an extension of induced self-rest for a human observer moving at constant velocity to the accelerating observer through the accelerating observer’s interpretation of his physical environment. Relying on a particular arrangement of physical objects as opposed to other different arrangements of physical objects does not account for the presence or absence of gravity. The accelerating human observer’s interpretation of a specific arrangement of objects that includes his seeing himself at rest can account for the presence or absence of gravity.