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Cosmic Engineering (Quasi-Newtonian Gravity) by BurtJordaan on December 28th, 2014, 2:35 am
In the last installment I attempted to cross the bridge from Special relativity to General relativity by means of things that are accelerated. We will now let gravity do the acceleration and see what it implies in simple situations.

Relativistic gravity is mostly about spacetime geodesics - the shortest path (or rather path of least action) that particles, objects or whatever, take through spacetime. When gravity is present, those paths are curved in most coordinate systems. Pictured below is a two-dimensional cut of a spacetime geodesic ($c\Delta t'$) in quasi-Newtonian spacetime.[1]

At the origin sits a large mass M and a small object is released from rest at position $r = r_0$. The object is moving upward at a "speed $c$",...

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Open-mindedness by Sisyphus on October 22nd, 2009, 8:51 pm