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I agree that both alternative views should be presented, or neither. This being GD, I think it's ok to opt for "both" at least for a...

I don't think this is true. US corporations can increase their profits by investing in poorer countries to make them richer. But doing...

The OP already did that. @JimWhoKnew was just checking to see that the answer the OP got in the rotating frame is consistent with the...

Unfortunately PF doesn't have a way to automatically insert LaTeX tags or delimiters.

Ah, yes, that's right. I was implicitly thinking of it that way. Good catch!

Both work, but the double pound signs and dollar signs are definitely easier and quicker to type, and easier to keep track of. :wink:

Generally yes, since it's generally used in a relativity context along worldlines. However, the definition only makes use of path...

While I know what you mean by this, I would point out as a caution that the term "geodesic deviation", at least in a GR context means...

Your ##d \phi d t## cross term isn't quite right; the factor in front should be ##2 \omega r##, not ##2 \omega r^2##. (When doing these...

You had two bugs, opening "itex" tags and closing "tex" tags. I just used magic moderator powers to fix both of them. Your equations...

But you admit later on in your post that both of these things can also be true of a classical equation. So they don't explicitly tell...

I don't see a contradiction. A mathematical equation, in and of itself, doesn't tell you how to interpret it physically. You always have...

My favorite quote from that essay: "If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to...

Yes, and the heat equation is not a wave equation. So this... ...doesn't seem right.

Note that, while, as I said in my previous post just now, the MWI doesn't work this way, the Bohmian interpretation, which is also...