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    I "General Relativity" by Wald -- question

    This book is amazing...Landau/Lifshitz vol 2 explains everything so clearly using the notation I'm familiar with
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    I "General Relativity" by Wald -- question

    Oh, well what book would you recommend as an introduction? If you don't mind
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    I "General Relativity" by Wald -- question

    Thanks, I am not far off in the book, and I recognize tensor calculus just shown to me in a different notation, and more complicated way i.e Kronecker delta. It's intimidating.
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    I "General Relativity" by Wald -- question

    I desire to read General relativity by Wald. I am a student who is self teaching, and I know tensor calculus by Pavel grinfield's introduction to tensor analysis and calculus of moving objects. The book states things from advanced calculus. Do I have more math to learn before hand?
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    I Black Hole & Spacetime Curvature: Can Mass Decrease It?

    If I had a small clump of clay and gave it a spherical orientation adding more clay a.k.a mass to the sphere would increase its circumference. As we both know, curvature becomes more intense as circumference decreases. Therefore, bigger cicurmference compared to increase mass will decrease...
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    I Black Hole & Spacetime Curvature: Can Mass Decrease It?

    Since a black hole goes to a singularity, theoretically wouldn't added mass to that point decrease the spacetime curvature by increasing of the circumference, and then not have a loss in information.
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    I Opposite of Black Hole - Matter Repulsion?

    Since black holes takes matter to a singularity, theoretically could there be a hole that does the opposite? As in push everything away like negative pressure.
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    So what am I supposed to learn in linear algebra

    Interesting! I don't quite understand what the kernel means unfortunately
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    A What math do I need to know to understand General Relativity

    I've spoke to him, I agree mathematics gives physics a type of elegance, anyways we couldn't work anything out unfortunately but I will push on
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    A What math do I need to know to understand General Relativity

    Tell me more about this Hartle book, What is the book called?
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    Physics How hard is it to become a physicist?

    I understand what you guys are saying, thank you. Medical physicist could be a possibility with me, as for engineering, I'm not much of a fan. All this made me reflect what should I do with my life.
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    So what am I supposed to learn in linear algebra

    Hey, I just started going over these concepts!, not kernel yet, but thanks! This was very helpful.
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    A What math do I need to know to understand General Relativity

    So I know relatively close to nothing on topology... Just the very basic... From a set of videos part of a general relativity course on YouTube by something winter school. I can post the link if you'd like.. I know I sound like some ignorant kid messing with something out of his reach, but I...
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    A What math do I need to know to understand General Relativity

    Oh my fault... I meant yes as in the sense yes for understand wald... I don't know any of that stuff... Topology I know is the very basics like charting ithe original into a image by taking open subsets of the original and lowering the dimension... Practically the first few pages of wald's book...
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