Equation 24 · Part 1 · The Atlas That Refuses to Close
Symbol T^αβ
What this part means
an energy-momentum density, units of energy per volume.
Its job in the formula
T^αβ is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
is an energy-momentum density, units of energy per volume; d is a directed three-volume element on , units of volume; is dimensionless once normalized to = -1 ; is a spacetime coordinate, units of length.
The passage around this formula
is this article’s first chart. It takes two pieces of auxiliary data, an observer and a slice, and returns a point. Different choices of (u,) for the identical physical body — the identical field, the identical total four-momentum = \, d and total angular momentum — can and do return different points, and the question this article is built to answer precisely is how different, and under what conditions the difference means something rather than nothing.
Learn the underlying idea
An exponent tells how a base is used in multiplication. In x³, x is the base and 3 is the exponent: x³ = x × x × x.
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