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  1. LordShadow_05

    Graduate Why does Weinberg discard fourth-order spatial Ricci components in chapter 9?

    To anyone who has studied Weinberg's book. Does anyone know why Weinberg discards the fourth order term of the purely spatial components of the ricci tensor? It's the chapter 9 (post-newtonian approximation) of his GR book. It doesn't make sense to me because he includes the R_{00} term of...