Literal Rippling of Spacetime

1997/01/29 by N. Redington, Redington, N.
Arts and Humanities · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Themes in Literature Analysis #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9701063

4 pages

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Abstract

The metric perturbation tensor corresponding to a transverse oscillation of spacetime is composed of products of cosines. When averaged over many wavelengths, such a metric may look either Minkowskian or Euclidean at large scales, depending on the amplitude and wavelength of the oscillation.

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