van Stockum dust

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Etymology[edit]

Named for Willem Jacob van Stockum, who rediscovered it in 1937, independently of an earlier discovery by Cornelius Lanczos in 1924.

Noun[edit]

van Stockum dust (uncountable)

  1. (physics) In general relativity, an exact solution of the Einstein field equation in which the gravitational field is generated by dust rotating about an axis of cylindrical symmetry.
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