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Why don't two accelerated clocks behave like two clocks in a gravitational field?

If we immerse two clocks in a gravitational field at different altitudes (with the approximation that both heights share the same g for equivalence to be true), the falling and Schwarzschild observers ...
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Do freefalling clocks within a small region of spacetime undergo gravitational time dilation?

I have several times seen explanations of gravitational free fall (eg, of a small object toward earth with no air resistance) that begin with the following claim about the particles of the free-...
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