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AdirianSoan
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- Trying to ensure my understanding about what Komar Mass refers to is reasonable; namely, that curvature curves curvature, and Komar Mass excludes this effect.
Suppose you have a particle, and you measure the gravitational force one meter away in flat spacetime. Add a second identical particle a negligible distance from the first, and measure the force at the same point one meter in flat spacetime away.
I expect the force to be very slightly less than twice the originally measured force. My internal explanation is that the distance from each particle to the measured point (and every intermediate point) is increased by the curvature of space-time created by the other particle, and it is this curved space that curvature is curving, rather than the imaginary flat space we are using as our basis of measurement.
Thus, Komar Mass is a somewhat more accurate way of measuring mass (if we are concerned with counting the number of atoms).
Is this a reasonable way to think about the situation?
I expect the force to be very slightly less than twice the originally measured force. My internal explanation is that the distance from each particle to the measured point (and every intermediate point) is increased by the curvature of space-time created by the other particle, and it is this curved space that curvature is curving, rather than the imaginary flat space we are using as our basis of measurement.
Thus, Komar Mass is a somewhat more accurate way of measuring mass (if we are concerned with counting the number of atoms).
Is this a reasonable way to think about the situation?