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Roy Kerr awarded Einstein Medal
Roy Kerr's reply 1) I was in Austin Tx when the metric was discovered, not in the UK 2) Newmann was somewhere out East 3)I had never heard this story before, but it is complete nonsense.- tagsdad
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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Graduate Can one diagonalize the Kerr metric?
Unfortunately, it is not possible. The reason that one can get as close as one off-diagonal term is a theorem by Achille Papapetrou. This requires that the metric be well-behaved on the axis of rotation. (Roy Kerr)- tagsdad
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity