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Rotating SpacetimesBachelorarbeit im Studiengang Physik
Fakultät für Physik und GeowissenschaftenInstitut für Theoretische PhysikMatthias RampkeBetreuer: Prof. Dr. R. VerchLeipzig, 26. August 2009
Abstract
In this thesis I give an overview over some instructive examples of rotatingspacetimes. The
van Stockum dust
, the
Gödel spacetime
and its stationaryand expanding generalizations are covered as well as the
Tipler cylinder
.A selection of measurable and observable effects is given along with sev-eral estimates of a possible global angular velocity of the universe based ondifferent arguments and sets of data. The estimates do not agree, and recentdata suggests that there is indeed no global rotation of the universe.
Contents
1.1 Notation and Conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1 Nonrotating Frames of Reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.2 Expansion, Shear and Vorticity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1 Van Stockum dust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.2 Spacetimes of Gödel type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.2.1 The original Gödel metric. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.2.2 Stationary cosmological spacetimes of Gödel type. . . 113.2.3 The expanding Gödel type cosmological model. . . . 143.3 The Tipler cylinder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.1 Frame dragging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184.2 Cosmological observations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204.2.1 The Cosmic Microwave Background. . . . . . . . . . 204.2.2 Parallax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214.2.3 Apparent magnitude
. . . . . . . 224.2.4 Number of Sources
. . . . . . . . 234.2.5 Polarization rotation effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244.2.6 The Formation of Galaxies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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