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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Cosmology with point masses
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- In article <1992Aug13.122004.19299@nuscc.nus.sg> scip1061@nuscc.nus.sg (Marc Paul Jozef) writes:
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- >A more realistic solution h of Einstein's G(g) = d
- >for a grid would be some perturbation of g which has
- >Schwarzschild-bumps around the grid-points. But
- >these bumps do not interest me; I want to know
- >about the mutual behaviour of the grid-points. And
- >this behaviour is described by g. (which satisfies G(g) = 0).
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- Hmm. Sounds dubious. I advise folks to look in Misner Thorne and
- Wheeler's Gravitation, which discuss a universe that is completely empty
- and roughly spherical except for 12 black holes arranged at the faces of
- a regular dodecahedron. The book even has a cute picture of such a
- space. I believe Wheeler wrote a paper on this and showed that the
- universe's expansion WOULD slow down due to the presence of the "point
- masses" (really, singularities). It would be an extreme bummer otherwise.
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