On Jan 5, 9:58*pm, Koobee Wublee wrote:
On Jan 5, 10:37 pm, George Hammond wrote:

Koobee Wublee wrote:
Whether you know what asymptotically flat means or not, it still
remains your problem. *shrug

* *Strictly speaking "asymptotically flat" means the 4th
order Riemann curvature tensor goes to zero at r=infinity.
* *In simple cases this can be determined by inspecting the
metric.... if it approaches the Minkowski metric for r=oo
then the space is asymptotically flat. *For instance the
Schwarzchild metric approaches the Minkowski Metric in
spherical coordinates for r--oo.

It actually does not involve the Rieman curature tensor.

Do you at all find it strange that every time you argue about
something, it is you saying one thing and several other people saying
the same something else?

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