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- From: scip1061@nuscc.nus.sg (Marc Paul Jozef)
- Subject: Re: Size of Second-Order GR Effects in Binary Pulsars
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.084336.17363@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:43:36 GMT
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- lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- : Tom van Flandern writes:
- : > There is apparently some argument about the system of equations being
- : >over-determined because of an extra identity that has been found. I can't
- : >say for certain that Yu's paper is correct, but the matter isn't trivial
- : >either.
- :
- : What extra identity???
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- : >
- : > It would help if you read Yu and gave us an informed opinion about the
- : >actual line of reasoning. Blind shots are not helpful.
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- : Maybe I'll find it sometime and check it over. But if it is in
- : some obscure, out-of-the-way journal, you ought to indicate whether or
- : not it is worth the trouble. In the meantime, you can be reading some
- : mainstream GR text like Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler's.
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- So this is the way real scientists reason.
- Most impressive.
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