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Newton-Cartan Theory: Newtonian Gravity as Curved Spacetime

March 28, 2016

Newtonian limit and spacetime curvature It's a calculation that you can find in any textbook on General Relativity (GR): when gravity is weak and does…

Why Is Acceleration Due to Gravity a Constant?

September 15, 2015

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This question has popped up many times. So here is an attempt to address it.To answer this question at the elementary level, several assumptions will…

Is Spacetime Really a Continuum?

September 1, 2015

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Introduction Is spacetime really a continuum? That is, can points of spacetime really be described---at least locally---by lists of four…