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- From: Bruce.Scott@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Scott)
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- Subject: Re: Quasars: near versus far
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- Date: 14 Aug 92 11:50:18 GMT
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- Richard.Mathews@West.Sun.COM (Richard M. Mathews) writes:
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- >Not really. Einstein's wanted a field equation of the form
- > G' = 8*pi*T
- >where G' is a measure of curvature of space-time, T is stress-energy,
- >and the 8*pi is there by convention.
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- Actually (to nit pick, maybe this is what you mean by convention),
- this form is necessary to have the equation converge to the Newtonian
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- (del squared) phi = 4 pi G rho,
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- in the nonrelativistic limit. Here, the force of gravity is g = - grad
- phi (vectors), G is the gravitation constant, and rho is the mass density.
-
- Gruss,
- Dr Bruce Scott The deadliest bullshit is
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