Good, so you retract the claim in post 33, and analogously your claims that the given metric is "phony", "in error", "certainly NOT minkowski", etc?
There is never a physical justification for a basis change. As you should know changing bases does not change any of the actual physics, it is always for mathematical reasons that basis changes are performed, for example making calculations easier or some things easier to see., there is no physical justification for the above basis change.
Besides, justification is in the result. And in the case of the simpler one in post 32, to test your level of knowledge on the subject as it was a complete give-away.
Huh? Here is someone:Also, show that someone else (rather than you) elected to stick the Schwarzschild radiusinto the Minkowski metric.
You did learn by now that the above, once you set the coefficients to constants by setting, is just minkowski in a non-standard basis, right? Not the schwarzschild geometry you kept seeing in it.
So you might as well ask yourself the same questions, maybe you'd see how silly they are.



into the Minkowski metric.


, is just minkowski in a non-standard basis, right? Not the schwarzschild geometry you kept seeing in it.
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is not minkowski, back to basic math and physics you go then.
as it had been defined.







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and thus you are claiming that the moon is made of cheese. Got any reference for that?
and
without USING GR.
by hand).
. You have just shown that you are also using
instead of
)

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gives:

, where T is independent of t, a static observer at some location xi, which has some satellite pass by it. Then:



(2)

, the proper radial speed, As an aside, I have repeatedly told caveman1917 throughout the thread that working in coordinate speed is meaningless. 

are real constants such that
)

as 
such that the metric in those coordinates is expressed as
. Then:
consisting of the coordinate speed components of the satellite scaled by coordinate speed of light in that direction (ψi/T), as you have it. You've made a coordinate transform to t' satisfying dt' = Tdt and hence new T' = 1. This is completely legitimate, since it's just a coordinate transformation that changes nothing essential:


for 3 dimensions of space, likewise for all repeated indices of i.


to stress that it is for any "r"
- just spartial increment for photon




since
is a variable, not a constant. Basically, the Minkowski metric cannot have non-constant coefficients. And whenever you're describing gravity you must have non-constant coefficients. It's either one or the other.
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!).

, so in that sense you could say that you "blame
, so in your language you should "blame" both. This is just a consequence of the spherical symmetry of the schwarzschild metric though.
mean?








. Remember that to compare vectors at different locations in spacetime (which includes same place according to some slicing but different time!), you need to be careful about how you're transporting the vector in order to compare them. I can make no sense of
