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The Schwarzschild Geometry: Physically Reasonable?
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In the last article, we looked at various counterintuitive features of the Schwarzschild spacetime geometry, as illustrated in the Kruskal-Szekeres…
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The Schwarzschild Geometry: Spacetime Diagrams
When we left off in part 2, we were looking at the metric for the Schwarzschild geometry in Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates:$$
ds^2 = \frac{32…
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The Schwarzschild Geometry: Coordinates
At the end of part 1, we looked at the form the metric of the Schwarzschild geometry takes in Gullstrand-Painleve coordinates:$$
ds^2…
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The Schwarzschild Geometry: Key Properties
Not long after Einstein published his Field Equation, the first exact solution was found by Karl Schwarzschild. This solution is one of the…