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

[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.