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Re: tabletop geodesics, general relativity, embedding diagrams



At 10:43 AM 3/3/01 -0500, David Bowman wrote:
Photons do *not* make closed orbits about black holes at the horizon.

OK, but factors of 3/2 aside, would somebody care to explain why real-world
gravitation can produce a family of closed Keplerian orbits of different
sizes, while a table-top model of curved space apparently cannot model this
in a nice way?