Mimicking General Relativity with Newtonian Dynamics
Author(s) -
Érico Goulart
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
isrn mathematical analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2090-4665
pISSN - 2090-4657
DOI - 10.5402/2012/260951
Subject(s) - analogy , einstein , general relativity , classical mechanics , newtonian fluid , physics , gravitational field , theoretical physics , newtonian dynamics , metric (unit) , theory of relativity , gravitation , point (geometry) , mathematical physics , mathematics , philosophy , epistemology , geometry , engineering , operations management
The aim of this paper is twofolded. (1) Showing that Newtonian mechanics of point particles in static potentials admits an alternative description in terms of effective riemannian spacetimes. (2) Using the above geometrization scheme to investigate aspects of the gravitational field as it appears in the Einstein theory. It is shown that the mechanical (3
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