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Group: sci.physics.foundations · Group Profile
Author: Oh No
Date: May 7, 2008 07:00

Thus spake Juan R. GonzГЎlez-ГЃlvarez canonicalscience.com>
>Oh No wrote on Tue, 06 May 2008 10:05:12 -0600:
>
>>>He had no problem to accept my finding about weak fields. Why do you
>>>have one?
>>
>> Perhaps you did not make clear to him that you were confusing the linear
>> limit with the weak field limit.
>
>If you have no serious argument then I will reply this irrelevant and
>false one. I will copy and paste fragments of my communication with him:

It is not much help. Incoherent and does not make your case.
>
>>>Poisson is simply confirming i said in my start message.
>>
>> He is not confirming that the text books have it wrong.
>
>He confirmed that the equation (4.19)
>
>on
>
>http://lanl.arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9712019v1
>
>is not consistent with linear constraint (4.13) applied to (4.9)
>
>He confirmed that if you apply condition (4.13) the geodesic equation
>(4.9) reduces to
>
>a = 0

The geodesic equation always reduces to a=0 with a suitable choice of
coordinates or definition of a. This is not inconsistent with equation
4.19 in a different choice of coordinates. There is nothing wrong with
the derivation of 4.19 from 4.13 in the reference you give.
>

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