Talk:Static spherically symmetric perfect fluid

Stub
Well, I have big plans for this article but unfortunately I became distracted just as I was creating it. Still hope to finish the article, perhaps as early as tommorrow. I plan to discuss in somewhat more detail some of the interesting algorithms for producing exact solutions, and especially the the BVW approach together with solution generating transformations. I am not yet decided about how much information to include on specific exact solutions, but certainly the Schwarzschild fluid and its matching to the vacuum exterior deserve an article, and in some way I'd like to survey (with graphs of density and pressure) some of the possibilities, and I plan to at least list the metrics for perhaps fifteen of the simplest representative solutions, including regular compact fluid balls, diffuse fluids (extending to infinity), and perhaps mention of irregular fluids (pressure and density blow up at center). ---CH (talk) 13:32, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Disatisfaction
Gee whiz, I haven't even begun writing and already I dislike the organization I have in mind! I need inspiration for explaining why I am talking about fluid balls rather than gas balls. I just made the figure and already I don't like it (ugly, but the suggestive shape might amuse anyone who has seen worried recent questions whether I might be making a :-/ gravitational wave weapon), but putting it there is supposed to be useful eventually in giving those without physics background the gist of the discussion. I'll just say now that I fully realize that what I have in the introduction at the moment does not suffice. Despite these initial problems, I am going to try something new: just get going and hope that the neccessary extensive future revision will be less painful than getting started (already quite painful enough). ---CH (talk) 16:53, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, that didn't work. I am retiring in some disarray, leaving this article in far worse shape than I found it this morning... sigh... I'll try to fix it when I'm feeling more inspired.---CH (talk) 17:46, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Right now I guess that the way to go is to break this rather complicated todo list down into several articles in a new subcategory; this article can act as a kind of directory for that subcategory, but I'll need to think some more about exactly how this could work. ---CH (talk) 17:53, 18 October 2005 (UTC)