The canonical quantization of gravity in general relativity is greatly simplified by the artificial decomposition of space time into a 3 + 1 formalism. Such a simplification appears to come at the cost of general covariance. This quantization procedure requires tangential and perpendicular infinitesimal diffeomorphisms generated by the symmetry group under the Legendre transformation of the given action. This gauge generator, along with the fact that Weyl curvature scalars may act as “intrinsic coordinates” (or a dynamical reference frame) that depend only on the spatial metric (gab) and the conjugate momenta (pcd), allows for an alternative approach to canonical quantization of gravity. In this paper, we present the tensorial solution of the set of Weyl scalars in terms of canonical phase-space variables.

In a series of papers published in the course of his dissertation work in the mid 1950's, Andrzej Trautman drew upon the slow motion approximation developed by his advisor Infeld, the general covariance based strong conservation laws enunciated by Bergmann and Goldberg, the Riemann tensor attributes explored by Goldberg and related geodesic deviation exploited by Pirani, the permissible metric discontinuities identified by Lichnerowicz, O'Brien and Synge, and finally Petrov's classification of vacuum spacetimes. With several significant additions he produced a comprehensive overview of the state of research in equations of motion and gravitational waves that was presented in a widely cited series of lectures at King's College, London, in 1958. Fundamental new contributions were the formulation of boundary conditions representing outgoing gravitational radiation the deduction of its Petrov type, a covariant expression for null wave fronts, and a derivation of the correct mass loss formula due to radiation emission. Ivor Robinson had already in 1956 developed a bi-vector based technique that had resulted in his rediscovery of exact plane gravitational wave solutions of Einstein's equations. He was the first to characterize shear-free null geodesic congruences. He and Trautman met in London in 1958, and there resulted a long-term collaboration whose initial fruits were the Robinson-Trautman metric, examples of which were exact spherical gravitational waves.

You could begin one of your undergraduate mechanics classes with this question: Suppose that you have a partially open book on a table, and you allow it to fall closed.Does it take the same time to close in air and in vacuum?

The conventional Rosenfeld-Bergmann-Dirac constrained Hamiltonian algorithm applied to Einstein-Yang-Mills theory is shown to be equivalent to a local gauge theoretic extension of Cartan's invariant integral approach to classical mechanics. In addition, the Hamiltonian generators of Legendre-projectable spacetime diffeomorphism and gauge symmetries are derived directly as vanishing Noether charges. This leads directly to their interpretation as delivering the correct symmetry variations of both configuration and momentum feld variables.

The vanishing phase space generator of the full four-dimensional diffeomorphism-related symmetry group in the context of the Barbero–Immirz–Holst Lagrangian is derived directly, for the first time, from Noether’s second theorem. Its applicability in the construction of classical diffeomorphism invariants is reviewed.

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It is hard to imagine teaching physics or astronomy without a laboratory component, but that was the common state of affairs in the late 19th century in the United States.Sarah Frances Whiting was among the first educators to make lab work central to the teaching of astronomy.This article dis-

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