(May 14, 2011 at 10:31 am)corndog36 Wrote: I'm not a physicist, so perhaps someone can help me out with this. Is this frame dragging a case where the flat space-time paradigm can not be applied as well as the curved space-time paradigm, or simple another confirmation of General Relativity? Also, since wormholes have been brought up, does the existence of wormholes depend on the flat space-time paradigm being dis-proven?
The "curved space-time paradigm" is general relativity. Frame dragging would not be expected in the flat space-time of special relativity, it's a purely general relativistic effect.
The "flat space-time paradigm" has already been disproved. GR describes spacetime as a curved (pseudo-)Riemannian manifold and there is a large body of evidence in it's favour.
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