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    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Relativity/General_Relativity_(Crowell)/07%3A_Symmetries/7.04%3A_Static_and_Stationary_Spacetimes_(Part_1)
      When we set out to describe a generic spacetime, the Alice in Wonderland quality of the experience is partly because coordinate invariance allows our time and distance scales to be arbitrarily rescale...When we set out to describe a generic spacetime, the Alice in Wonderland quality of the experience is partly because coordinate invariance allows our time and distance scales to be arbitrarily rescaled, but also partly because the landscape can change from one moment to the next. The situation is drastically simplified when the spacetime has a timelike Killing vector. Such a spacetime is said to be stationary.

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