Re:Dark Matter Doesn't Exist
by hither_shores on Thursday August 11, 2022 @09:58PM
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> The results of using basis vectors for derivations aren’t riddled with artifacts of any particular coordinate system, as it would become immediately clear when expressing Christoffel symbols, for example - they wouldn’t be equal with other approaches.
But the Christoffel symbols are artifacts of a particular coordinate system - the real object is the connection, of which the Christoffel symbols are just basis-dependent components.
I must admit I haven’t touched the subject for twelve years. It sounds like you have a vested interest in dark matter. I think you’d have better luck talking to the author or reading the paper.
The arguments against it sounded plausible at the time.
General Relativity largely describes how geometry is nature - what may seem obvious from a mathematical perspective isn’t always so from a physical one. The results of using basis vectors for derivations aren’t riddled with artifacts of any particular coordinate system, as it would become immediately clear when expressing Christoffel symbols, for example - they wouldn’t be equal with other approaches.
One of the other students who was getting her PhD specializing in GR said that using a vector approach gave her intuition about concepts she had previously considered incomprehensible.