Here is where you are wrong. I am not arguing the EP. I am arguing the net acceleration of someone standing on the ground is zero. They are claiming it is not zero and in the upwards direction. I already know about GR and SR. YOU DO NOT NEED TO LECTURE ME ON IT.
Without meaning to sound childish, you had just told me that we were having a 'state the obvious contest'. While I should have remained mature and ignored that comment, I had to just wade on in and patronise you. Tell you what, I'll just man-up and apologise for it.
I will summarise my position:
- person on the ground feels a non-zero force upwards (accelerometer says so)
- person on the ground is not going anywhere (zero net co-ordinate acceleration)
- person on the ground can equally conclude that either they are in a gravitational field with the centre of mass beneath them, or that they are being accelerated upwards by the ground (there is nothing they can do to tell the two possibilities apart,
a la EP)
That's all I'm asserting here... do you disagree with any of that?