Schild’ has proposed a heuristic agrument which attempts, to show that any gravitational red shift requires that the geometry of space−time be curved. It is our intention to show that this argument is fallacious and we believe that no argument which attempts to infer space−time curvature solely from the gravitational red shift can be valid.

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