Note on Motion in the Schwarzschild Field
- 15 October 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 8 (8) , 2360-2362
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.8.2360
Abstract
It is often said that the speed of a freely falling test particle in the Schwarzschild field approaches the speed of light at the Schwarzschild radius. It is shown that this is not the case.Keywords
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