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PIn https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mperkows/june2007/bloch-sphere.pdf, Ian Glendinning describes a derivation of the Bloch sphere for one...
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Ppervect replied to the thread I Gravitation (MTW) Misner Thorne Wheeler - 50 years (RIP) C.W.Misner.Can you really read the formulae and the diagrams on the Kindle version? I would think it'd be tough to get much out of it :(.
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Ppervect reacted to PAllen's post in the thread B Time dilation for two clocks at different altitudes on Earth with
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If you imagine two places on earth such that the total work to raise a small body from the surface to very far from earth was greater at... -
Ppervect replied to the thread I How does GR deal with pointlike objects with mass?.I would say that your characterization of GR as saying that "the planet is stretching" is flawed. But lets move on to your question...
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Ppervect replied to the thread I How to calculate basis vectors from metric tensor (as a matrix)?.A recap of what others said. If one defines coordinates on a manifold, (to be more formal, one might talk about a coordinat chart), one...