Wednesday, 8 March 2017

general relativity - Physical visualisation of curvature


I was wondering-how do you visualise curvature in the context of general relativity. The gravity well and trampoline analogies are quite wrong, so I want a more realistic approach to it (say, the way Einstein himself might have visualised it). Mathematically, it all makes sense, but I am not really sure how does this really looks like. More specifically:



  1. How do you visualise Riemann tensor?

  2. Ricci tensor?

  3. Weyl Tensor?


ANY DIFFERENCE IN THE VISUALISATIONS?





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