Re: The Absurd Claim of the Metric as a Tensor



Koobee Wublee wrote:
The definition of a tensor as agreed by almost everyone says that any
matrix invariant under a coordinate transformation is a tensor

That is not the definition of tensor. Not even close. You need to LEARN about the subject before attempting to write about it.


Tom Roberts
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