Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This video derives the equation for #flammsparaboloid, the embedding diagram corresponding to the #schwarzschildmetric. I also briefly describe reasons that Flamm's paraboloid is often misleading when used to depict spacetime, but further details will be left to another video!

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Lecture Notes: drive.google.com/file/d/1nn286qP1OY7LEuiokQl_8efImw97Jep0/view?usp=drive_link

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