Lorentz Invariance in a Gravitational Field.

Robert L. Kirkwood

ResearchPublished 1962

An investigation of the concept that the entire gravitational field about any set of masses should be invariant in a manner similar to the Lorentz invariance of the electromagnetic field about any set of charges. The type of invariance that the gravitational field must have is deduced largely from experiment. Most physically realizable gravitational fields have the necessary type of invariance if the relative velocity of the two Lorentz frames is small

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  • Year: 1962
  • Pages: 72
  • Document Number: RM-3146-RC

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Kirkwood, Robert L., Lorentz Invariance in a Gravitational Field. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1962. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3146.html.
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