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Are there local coordinates for Schwarzchild spacetime?
In the Schwarzchild metric, $t$ is the time on the clock of an observer at infinity, and $r$ is the related to the area of a sphere by $A=4\pi r^2$. Are there more physical coordinates one could use, ...
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Are there any good references on the "gravitational" curvature of spacetime of a moving mass being distorted due to special relativity?
In this Wikipedia paragraph suggesting an explanation for the phenomenon of inertia, it claims:
Another physicist, Vern Smalley, has derived the Lorentz transformation for mass by assuming that the ...
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