Timeline for Clarifying what metric counts as flat space
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| Jan 12, 2016 at 17:19 | comment | added | MBN | I would be more carefull with wording. A matric is not a space! | |
| Jan 12, 2016 at 13:52 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 31, 2012 at 3:38 | vote | accept | ben | ||
| Dec 30, 2012 at 23:42 | comment | added | kηives | I would do what QMechanic says and drop your metric into a computer code and compute the Riemann curvature tensor. If it vanishes, you're dealing with a flat geometry. | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 18:51 | answer | added | Qmechanic♦ | timeline score: 12 | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 5:07 | answer | added | FrankH | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 4:49 | answer | added | Muphrid | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 4:05 | history | asked | ben | CC BY-SA 3.0 |