Geometry of the universe
•R-W metric in spherical coordinates:
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•The curvature k=+1 for spherical, 0 for flat, and -1 for hyperbolic spacetime. •Spherical spaces are finite volumes, other geometries may or may not be finite.
•Note, photon trajectories obey ds2=0.
•GR has a tensor formalism we won’t get into.
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