Recent content by Dick Taid

Hmm, thanks. :) I'm not entirely convinced though. But that's probably more due to my inability to state what it is I want with it. Here's everything (well, most of it): I'm doing a little project right now, where I'm trying to plot the timelike and lightlike orbits of some test particle...

Homework Statement Hi, From the Kerr metric, in geometrized units, \left(1 - \frac{2M}{r}\right) \left(\frac{dt}{d\lambda}\right)^2 + \frac{4Ma}{r} \frac{dt}{d\lambda}\frac{d\phi}{d\lambda} - \frac{r^2}{\Delta} \left(\frac{dr}{d\lambda}\right)^2 - R_a^2...

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The only difference between the two editions, equation-wise, is that they in first edition confine themselves to the maximal Kerr black hole (a=M), while in the second edtion they generalize for all values of a, as well as converting to unitless entries by dividing through with M. But other than...

Thank you for your suggestions. I've just looked at the source code of GROrbits, and I think I've suffered a massive brain aneurysm -- JAVA apparently makes less sense than I remembered. Looking at Taylor's draft again, it doesn't appear they have used another way of computing the orbits...

Hi there, First post, so be gentle. I'm currently doing a project on Kerr black holes, part of which is based on a project in Edwin F. Taylor's book "Exploring Black Holes" (the chapter is found here) as well as some of Hartle's book (chapter 15). Part of my project, and as a way of better...