van Stockum dust
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English[edit]
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)
- (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.