Timeline for Local Charts in General Relativity
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| Nov 15, 2011 at 9:08 | comment | added | Anamitra Palit | You have pointed out the local considerations.The metric in the local tangent space is a flat one.But our aim,essentially, is to apply SR in the local context.The exclusion of non-local regions is a serious flaw since the aforesaid non-local region might contain anisotropies and inhomogeneities that come in the way of applying SR in the local context. Nevertheless we apply SR locally "as if" the non-local region was flat space time.A "Global Transformation" is assumed to be valid | |
| Nov 14, 2011 at 18:30 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 14, 2011 at 15:41 | history | answered | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |