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General relativity and the conservation of momentum
I'm trying to understand the conservation of momentum in general relativity.
Due to the curvature of space-time by matters and energy, the path of a linear motion appears to be distorted.
Therefore ...
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Can a deformable object “swim” in curved space-time? [duplicate]
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Swimming in Spacetime - apparent conserved quantity violation
It is well known that a deformable object can perform a finite rotation in space by performing deformations ...
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No hair theorem for black holes and the baryon number
The no hair theorem says that a black hole can be characterized by a small number of parameters that are visible from distance - mass, angular momentum and electric charge.
For me it is puzzling why ...
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What is the conserved quantity of a scale-invariant universe?
Consider that we have a system described by a wavefunction psi(x). We then make an exact copy of the system, and anything associated with it, (including the inner cogs and gears of the elementary ...
