File:Schwarzchild-metric.jpg

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Summary

This image was created in Mathematica. The hole you can see in the center is because that region is within the Schwarzschild radius, so the given transformation for embedding into Euclidean space gives nonreal results there.

 
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Space time curvature by a point mass placed on the fabric of space.

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current13:45, 12 May 2007461 × 238 (8 KB)Hairy Dudecropped away huge blank area

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