On Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 1:48:15 PM UTC-5, Alan Grayson wrote:
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> On Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 4:08:58 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell 
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>> You also have to include the total gravitational energy or T^{ab}  due to 
>> local sources and Λg^{ab}. 
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>> The ADM Hamiltonian constraint is NH = 0 where this Hamiltonian is 
>> determined by the traceless transverse part of the extrinsic curvature or 
>> Gauss fundamental form. For a general spacetime manifold there is no way to 
>> define mass-energy and for most Petrov types the mass-energy is simply no 
>> defined. Think of a spherical space with matter throughout. There is no way 
>> to construct a Gaussian surface with which to integrate a total mass or 
>> energy. Also if that putative surface is embedded in mass-energy then that 
>> surface is subject to diffeomorphisms of local curvature. Energy is then 
>> not localizable, and in general things that we want invariant are so 
>> independent of such diffeomorphisms. 
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>> LC
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> The energy of the gravitational field is positive for each particle of 
> average mass. But how does one calculate the negative potential energy for 
> each average mass particle? I can calculate the potential energy of a test 
> particle at some location IN a field, but how can I calculate the total 
> negative potential energy OF the field (for a particle of average mass)? AG
>

V = -GMm/r

Read the following where by using H = 0, zero energy and just Newtoin's 
laws it is easy to derive the FLRW equations for k = 0 or a flat spatial 
surface.

LC

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/257476/how-did-the-universe-shift-from-dark-matter-dominated-to-dark-energy-dominate/257542#257542


 

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>> On Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 10:00:55 PM UTC-5, Alan Grayson wrote:
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>>> Just sum over the estimated total of 10^80 particles, using mc^2 by 
>>> first estimating the average mass of those particles for the rest energy, 
>>> adding their average potential gravitational energy and their average 
>>> kinetic energy. Why not? AG
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