`Newtonian' Time in General Relativity

Details `Newtonian' Time in General Relativity `Newtonian' Time in General Relativity

Feb 1953

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1953natur.171..260v&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 171, Issue 4345, pp. 260-261 (1953).

Physics

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A RESULT recently given by Eisenhart1 suggests an interesting application in general relativity. According to it, we can choose co-ordinates in which a line element showing spherical symmetry would take the form: and a radial null vector wμ will have w2 = w3 = w4 = 0, so that the velocity of light along radial directions (given by w1/w4) is infinite. Hence we may call the co-ordinates (r,t) the `Newtonian' co-ordinates.

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