Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>   I'm a complete layman on the subject and the GR equations go *well* over
> my head. The Schwarzschild solution to those equations goes even more
> beyond my comprehension, so everything I know about the subject is from
> reading things put into layman terms.

I think we all have to agree on this point.  I pretty much stopped reading these
layman's explanations on topics like relativity and quantum mechanics, figuring
that all the effort would be better spent learning the real thing.  I picked up
a textbook on the subject a couple weeks ago, but haven't gotten far enough to
say anything more intelligent.  Here's an interesting set of notes, though:
http://preposterousuniverse.com/grnotes/  It has a pretty neat explanation of
the Lorentz transformations, but it takes a bit more effort to dig into GR.

 - Ricky

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