Comoving and inertial frames of reference (Q1369926)

The author considers the possibility of constructing nonlinear equations of general relativity by including potential energy and solves them for the motion of individual particles having nonzero four-dimensional absolute acceleration relative to a family of inertial geodesics satisfying the field equations in their orbits. It is based on the thermodynamic energy scalar \(mc^2\) and the potential energy scalar \(mU\) of the particle as in Newtonian mechanics or in the Minkowski space of the special theory of relativity.