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Graduate Gravitomagnetism: Why isn't mass-current covariant?
Okay, I'll try to understand more deeply what the stress-energy tensor means (I only understand it from a variational principle, taking the variation of your lagrangian w.r.t the inverse metric, which doesn't give me intuitive insight) However, I'd like to insist on my previous questions...- atikof
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Graduate Gravitomagnetism: Why isn't mass-current covariant?
Thank you, that's exactly my point! I'm not asking if this approach to gravitomagnetism is right for describing gravity (of course GR is better and more beautiful), but wether it's fully consistent (i.e. Lorentz covariant) or not. I didn't know that! Could you please explain it a bit more or...- atikof
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Graduate Gravitomagnetism: Why isn't mass-current covariant?
"Gravitomagnetism is a widely used term referring specifically to the kinetic effects of gravity, in analogy to the magnetic effects of moving electric charge". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitoelectromagnetism Essentially the idea is to take Maxwell's equations and make a substitution...- atikof
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