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211 | Solo: Secrets of Einstein's Equation
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Solving Einstein's Equation for the Gravitational Field of the Sun
Einstein tried to solve Einstein's equation for a very simple problem, namely the gravitational field of the sun. So he wrote down an exact solution to Einstein's equation called the Schwarzschild metric. It doesn't depend on time at all and it doesn't really depend on the angle either. Everything just depends on R, the distance from the sun to wherever you are.
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