A Particle at Rest in a Static Gravitational Field
- 1 July 1949
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Reviews of Modern Physics
- Vol. 21 (3) , 503-505
- https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.21.503
Abstract
It is shown that, for a particle to be at rest in a static, axially symmetric gravitational field, the force on the particle must vanish. This result is then generalized to the case of an arbitrary static gravitational field.Keywords
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