I was just thinking about...

[fflo]

... the well-known formal equivalence between standard general relativity and its teleparallel reformulation. You know---whereas in standard general relativity the gravitational field comes about as the curvature of the Levi-Civita connection of a Lorentzian metric, in the teleparallel reformulation it comes about as the torsion of the Weitzenböck connection of a teleparallel tetrad field.

It's kinda funny when you think about it, isn't it?

Comments

[psychesdesire.livejournal.com]

umm...i must be stupid...

[groovesinorbit]

She's reading the stuff she's copy editing again. Looks like MR has a dress code, too, now!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Ha! Nah, I'm voluntarily dressing up in Mathematician Chic to show my love for the place.

[groovesinorbit]

Aha! I like your pocket protector.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

That darned physics!

oh, kewl

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Wow---I forgot there was somebody ought there who might actual FOLLOW that kind of thing.

Re: oh, kewl

[fflo.livejournal.com]

er, OUT there

BTW, one day I'm gonna get it together at the office (where there's a decent connection) and listen to some of your uploaded songs. I'm looking forward to it.

Re: oh, kewl

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Don't worry. I have a degree in physics, but I still don't follow the subtleties of relativistic theory. My understanding of modern physics peters out in the 1920's. Which partially explains why I'm not a working physicist.

Re: oh, kewl

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Well, you may not be a working physicist, but you looked damned good with that rocket.

whut

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

whut da fuck you talkin bout?

by the way

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

the image is chris makepeace, star of "Meatballs," from the 80s. My hair looks like his when I've gone too long w/o a haircut.

Re: by the way

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I prefer to think of the crazy-curly long hair of sprig5---see this here picture, even though it's not exactly what it looked like live, I don't think. (I recall the overall roundness of the thing being more symmetrical.) (Hey, maybe that's it---you know I get off of symmetry!)

and

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

I _Do_ like the tie. ;)

Re: and

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Gee, and I was just thinking of taking it off.