Re: Cosmology

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

Thanks, David.  Misremembered is probably  more accurate.


On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, David Bowman wrote:

> Regarding Jack U.'s comment of 19 JUN 04:
>
> > Although I don't recognize the verb here, Einstein's constant was to
> > render <static> the Schwarzschild solution to his equation.  ...
>
> I suspect that JU merely misspoke (er, miswrote) himself here, but
> the cosmological constant does *not* appear in the Schwarzschild
> solution which already *is* a static solution (external to the event
> horizon) of Einstein's vacuum equations (except at point-mass
> singularity).  I suspect that maybe JU meant to write the 'Friedmann'
> solution to Einstein's equation describing a matter-homogenized
> universe of constant spatial curvature.
>
> David Bowman

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