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Gowdy universes or, alternatively, Gowdy solutions of Einstein's equations are simple model
spacetime In physics, spacetime, also called the space-time continuum, is a mathematical model that fuses the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional continuum. Spacetime diagrams are useful in visualiz ...
s in
general relativity General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity, and as Einstein's theory of gravity, is the differential geometry, geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and is the current description of grav ...
which represent an expanding
universe The universe is all of space and time and their contents. It comprises all of existence, any fundamental interaction, physical process and physical constant, and therefore all forms of matter and energy, and the structures they form, from s ...
filled with a regular pattern of gravitational waves.


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* * – a description of the different types of Gowdy universes suitable for a general audience General relativity {{relativity-stub