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Old May 12th 08 posted to sci.physics.relativity
Koobee Wublee
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Default I have an Allien genius who wants to learn GR

On May 10, 11:57 pm, JanPB wrote:
On May 10, 9:42 pm, Koobee Wublee wrote:


ds^2 = G c^2 dt^2 / (1 + K^2 / r^2) – 4 r^2 (1 + K^2 / r^2) dr^2 / K^2
– (r^2 + K^2)^2 dO^2 / K^2


Its Ricci and Einstein tensors both vanish. In doing so, it is also
sharing the same coordinate system with the Schwarzschild metric.


Calculate the Ricci tensor. It's not zero. The R_theta,theta is
probably the easiest nonzero component to compute.


What do you mean ‘probably’? Remember dO^2 consists of r, theta, and
phi as the Ricci and the Einstein tensors are only valid in four
dimensions. Since you have not computed the Ricci tensor, you have no
right to call the above solution not a null result of the Ricci and
the Einstein tensors. shrug There is no point to continue.


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