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← ScienceWhich consequence results when gravitational and inertial mass equivalence breaks down at extremely small scales?
A)Spacetime singularities become increasingly probable
B)The cosmological constant fluctuates erratically
C)Local Lorentz invariance is strongly violated✓
D)Dark matter interactions intensify unexpectedly
💡 Explanation
Breaking the equivalence principle leads to a violation of local Lorentz invariance, because the inertial and gravitational frames would no longer be locally indistinguishable. Therefore, Lorentz symmetry would be affected, rather than leading to observable fluctuations in the universe, because dark matter changes would require new particle interaction.
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