Timeline for In what coordinates does a non-inertial observer make measurements?
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| Sep 25, 2022 at 13:04 | comment | added | Davius | For an inertial observer, the measured coordinates $(x,y,z)$ of a body she is observing do not need to be constant. In general, for non-inertial observers the Christoffel symbols are not null. | |
| Jun 20, 2022 at 1:32 | answer | added | Eric Smith | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 20, 2022 at 0:12 | comment | added | Javier | Very brief answer: the lesson from GR is that all measurements are in fact local and coordinate independent. If you're measuring things happening far away you're doing so using light (or some other form of information transfer), and you can't ignore that. | |
| Jun 19, 2022 at 21:55 | history | asked | Radu Moga | CC BY-SA 4.0 |