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Re: When Euclid Model Stops working.........

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Posted by DickT on August 13, 2003 at 07:41:00:

In Reply to: When Euclid Model Stops working......... posted by sol on August 12, 2003 at 22:36:33:

sol,

LOcally GR spacetime is Minkowskian (special relativity), not Euclidean. Spacetime is "flat" in a neighborhood of a point if the Minkowskian metric tensor

can be extended fom the tangent space at the point to the whole neighborhood.

Regards,
Dick


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