Gravity's Cosmic Shadows: A Mathematical Unveiling
Presenter
March 22, 2006
Keywords:
- Approximate trajectories
MSC:
- 37C50
Abstract
Shadow patterns are all around us. We drive through them on the way to work and swim among them in pools. Similar patterns are also cast throughout the universe by the gravitational fields of stars and galaxies. We unveil some of the cosmic and mathematical secrets of these mysterious and beautiful patterns.