Timeline for Effect of gravity in space
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| Dec 24, 2020 at 9:45 | vote | accept | Muhammed Roshan | ||
| Dec 24, 2020 at 3:27 | comment | added | benrg | @Tristan That isn't true. The $r$ coordinate is arbitrary. It happens to be defined so that the angular part of the metric is $r^2dΩ^2$, but you could just as well use an $r'$ for which the radial part is $dr'^2$. This answer doesn't make a whole lot of sense since it treats $r$ as the true radius against which "space dilation" should be measured. | |
| Dec 23, 2020 at 13:37 | comment | added | Tristan | probably worth explicitly stating that the r^2 dOmega term is the same as in the 0-field case, and so there is no circumferential contraction, only radial | |
| Dec 23, 2020 at 4:21 | history | answered | Monopole | CC BY-SA 4.0 |