On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 09:13:34PM -0700, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote:
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> On Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 9:20:36 PM UTC-6, agrays...@gmail.com wrote:
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> On Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 8:08:58 PM UTC-6, agrays...@gmail.com
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> On Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 6:53:33 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote:
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> Sorry, I don't remember what, if anything, I intended to text.
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> I'm not expert on how Einstein arrived at his famous field
> equations. I know that he insisted on them being tensor equations
> so that they would have the same form in all coordinate systems.
> That may sound like a mathematical technicality, but it is really
> to ensure that the things in the equation, the tensors, could have
> a physical interpretation. He also limited himself to second
> order
> differentials, probably as a matter of simplicity. And he
> excluded
> torsion, but I don't know why. And of course he knew it had to
> reproduce Newtonian gravity in the weak/slow limit.
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> Brent
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> Here's a link which might help;
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> https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.05752.pdf
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> AG
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> I'm coming to the view that what I have been seeking these many years -
> namely, a mathematical derivation of Einstein's field equations, somewhat
> like a mathematical theorem -- doesn't exist. It's more a case of a set of
> highly subtle physical intuitions about how the universe functions, which,
> when cobbled together, result in the field equations. For this reason,
> most
> alleged explanations of GR involve, at some point, essentially pulling the
> field equations out of the proverbial hat. As with the Principle of
> Relativity and the Least Action Principle, the latter say applied to
> asserting geodesic motion for freely falling bodies, they're not provable
> as "true", but assuming them "false" would be a dead-end for physics and
> would, as well, make our lives miserable. AG
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> One possible exception to the above is the Einstein-Hilbert Principle of Least
> Action, from which, it is alleges, Einstein's field equations can be derived.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Hilbert_action
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> But what it is, and how it would work, is above my pay grade. Maybe someone
> here can shed some light on this topic.
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> AG
Roy Frieden has a derivation of Einstein's field equations from his
Fisher information principle - sorry its above my pay grade too, so
don't ask me to explain, but it could be related to you Hilbert action
derivation.
@Book{Frieden98,
author = {B. Roy Frieden},
title = {Physics from Fisher Information: a unification},
publisher = {Cambridge UP},
year = 1998,
address = {Cambridge}
}
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