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|    Luigi Fortunati to All    |
|    Re: The Direction of geodesics    |
|    08 Sep 22 15:35:59    |
      From: fortunati.luigi@gmail.com              Stefan Ram mercoledì 07/09/2022 alle ore 15:41:17 ha scritto:       > Richard wrote about two points in /space/.       >       > In GR, a geodesic usually is a curve in /space-time/.       >       > It's points are not (x, y, z), but (t, x, y, z).       > One should not think of its end points as being two points in space!              Okay, let's talk about two events in spacetime.              Event A is the lift's departure from point A and event B is the lift's       arrival at point B.              Why does the elevator (when it starts) go down (i.e. it goes from event       A to event B) and doesn't go up (where event B is not there)?              > A geodesic has no direction by itself.              On this I absolutely agree, however the elevator of my animation       https://www.geogebra.org/m/zdevssyz       it goes only and always in one direction and never in the other, why?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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