Drop something and it doesn't follow a curve through space. It will
fall straight. This is motion at right angles to curvature. There are
intermediate angles also. There are angles less than 90 degrees
through the space curvature. Traveling at angles to the curve gives a
geodesic.

Speed determines the changing direction of a geodesic. Geodesic is
velocity because of this. Slower motion increases the curvature of the
tensor.

Mitch Raemsch Twice Nobel Laureate 2008

On Apr 4, 2:20*pm, wrote:
Drop something and it doesn't follow a curve through space. It will
fall straight. This is motion at right angles to curvature. There are
intermediate angles also. There are angles less than 90 degrees
through the space curvature. Traveling at angles to the curve gives a
geodesic.

Speed determines the changing direction of a geodesic. Geodesic is
velocity because of this. Slower motion increases the curvature of the
tensor.

Mitch Raemsch Twice Nobel Laureate 2008

Above motion curvature is space curvature. This is geodesic for light.
The null geodesic of light defines curved space. Motion curve of
matter comes from its slower than light speed geodesic.

Mitch Raemsch Twice Nobel Laureate 2008

On Apr 5, 9:45*am, Igor wrote:
On Apr 4, 6:20*pm, wrote:

Drop something and it doesn't follow a curve through space. It will
fall straight.

Tell that to the myriad of satellites in orbit.

This is motion at right angles to curvature. There are
intermediate angles also. There are angles less than 90 degrees
through the space curvature. Traveling at angles to the curve gives a
geodesic.

And after all this time I thought that a geodesic resulted from a
variational principle. *Silly me.

Speed determines the changing direction of a geodesic. Geodesic is
velocity because of this. Slower motion increases the curvature of the
tensor.

If you're going to make things up, maybe you should try to make them
as outlandish as possible. *This doesn't even come close to making the
cut. *You've proven many times that you know any physics. *Now you're
just showing your serious lack of imagination and you're just getting
boring.

A tensor isn't imaginary.

Mitch Raemsch Twice Nobel Laureate 2008