Bill Beam wrote: > Mike, > > I was afraid someone would say 'Riemann tensor' > The problem with the Riemann tensor is that I don't > think that anyone here can write in down in detail > for this problem (let alone solve it). I surely can not. > > I also don't think that anyone here is ready for the > idea that there is no such thing as gravitational force, > and that in the absence of any other force everything > is in free fall. World lines and geodesics, oh my! > (inside joke). > > Surely its not necessary to write down the detailed Riemann Tensor for this simple case? Surely the Schwarzchild metric is a good approximation to situation of a test mass orbiting the Earth? If so, then perhaps the methods espoused by Wheeler can be used to derive the orbits?
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