📖Read Time: 19 minutes📊Readability: Advanced 📐 (Technical knowledge needed)🔖Core Topics: ab, tt, tensor, vector, geodesicIntroduction The theory of geodesic congruences is extensively covered in many textbooks (see References); what follows in the introduction is a brief summary. Consider a 1-parameter family of timelike geodesics ##\gamma_s(\lambda)##, where ##s## labels each geodesic in the family whilst ##\lambda## … Continue reading Geodesic Congruences in FRW, Schwarzschild and Kerr Spacetimes