Swimming in Space-Time

Cyclic changes in the shape of a quasi-rigid body on a curved manifold can lead to net translation and/or rotation of the body in the manifold. Presuming space-time is a curved manifold as portrayed by general relativity, translation in space can be accomplished simply by cyclic changes in the s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wisdom, Jack
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Subjects:
AI
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6706