Tuesday, 26 April 2016

general relativity - Using the Metric in Book Gravitation (MTW)


Here is the whole Box 2.2, at Page 55


Gravitation Box 2.2



The dot behind the second p2 seems to be a "planck mass" (sarcasm, flea egg) or just the book's style to use Dot behind the equations. So the Equation is basically;


p2=m=E2p2 which can be written


p2=E2p2 and if we add on both sides +p2 we have


0=E2


My question is "What is wrong here?" as here is no logic.


The same problem is already written above as p2=E2+p2 which is again nothing else than
0=E2


In my World I see it so; m2=0
thus m2=E2p2 is 0=E2p2 and E2=p2



Answer




It's a bit hard to see in this typography, but the two p are supposed to be different. The p on the l.h.s. is the four-momentum p=(p0,p1,p2,p3)T, the one on the r.h.s is the three-momentum p=(p1,p2,p3)T, and then p2=E2p2

for p0=E is tautologically true just from the definition of p2.


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