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- From: Richard.Mathews@West.Sun.COM (Richard M. Mathews)
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- Subject: Re: Quasars: near versus far
- Date: 17 Aug 1992 18:28:42 -0700
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- Bruce.Scott@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Scott) writes:
- >Richard.Mathews@West.Sun.COM (Richard M. Mathews) writes:
-
- >>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.
-
- >Actually (to nit pick, maybe this is what you mean by convention),
- >this form is necessary to have the equation converge to the Newtonian
- > (del squared) phi = 4 pi G rho,
- >in the nonrelativistic limit.
-
- Yes, and I said in that posting that "the multiplicative constant is
- determined by requiring the theory to agree with Newtonian gravitation
- in the Newtonian limit." What I meant when I said that the constant was
- 8*pi by convention was the 8*pi or any other constant could be hidden in
- the identification of G' with the standard G tensor. G or G' could just
- have well have had the factor of 8*pi incorporated within its definition
- in terms of R and g. I could have started with
- G' = T
- and ended up discovering that
- G'[ab] = 8*pi*R[ab] + (lambda + 4*pi*R)*g[ab]
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