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hmm i thought the path of a static observer in Schwarzschild spacetime was a Killing vector, since the metric doesn't change as one...

Follow up: It looks like — just going by my geometric intuition here — that Killing fields must have zero divergence. Can one please...

Thanks Peter, i think i'm getting a feel for it now. Like the way a set of particles in a stone move when the stone is either...

Consider this example: vectors in a Euclidean plane. Parallel transport in this case is simple: the direction the vector points stays...

It comes up at the top of this search, but strangely not finding the quote in the cited PF thread itself...

I found this quote on a different PF thread: For parallel transport, you move the vector in a direction that is always parallel to the...

I don't have an intuitive feel for Killing vectors. Wikipedia says, " . . . more simply, the flow generates a symmetry, in the sense...