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The math I showed you in post #40 is the kind of math I was looking for from you. I strongly suggest that you read that post very carefully.

Please give a reference for this very surprising claim. And please read the below from my previous post again--and again and again...

And your way to avoid these potential local relativistic effects, is to instead rely on distant visual observations of completely...

No, it's not. The claim you are making involves more than that. The "non-Euclidean space" does not have the effects you appear to think...

The bobs are pointing radially inward by construction. That is what "directly down" would normally be taken to mean. But the bobs still...

@.Scott multiple people now have told you that your hand-waving analysis is wrong and given reasons why. At this point you either need...

But your analysis is wrong. If the Dyson sphere is at ##1.5r_S## then the pendulum bobs are at some smaller ##r##. Thus in order to...

You seem to be conflating visual effects (how the pendulums look from a distance in curved space time) with what your altimeters...

It shouldn't be. The arc length between two points at equal altitude is ##r\int_{\phi_0}^{\phi_1}\ d\phi##, as you can read off the...

This cannot happen for a Schwarzschild black hole, because for a null geodesic ##\frac{d^2r}{d\lambda^2}=\frac{L^2}{r^4}\left(r-\frac...

Ah, yes, I forgot about that feature of the effective potential for null geodesics. Serves me right for not following my own advice to...

I told you how in post #10.

No, he won't. There is only one spacetime geometry. If the local guy thinks he's seeing different tidal effects, it's because he's not...

What math are you basing this on?

How are you obtaining this? Based on what math?