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We examine the motion of a test body in a static Taub space. It is shown that in the case of a fall to a gravitating plane, the test body on approach cannot have velocity greater than the velocity of light, measured by the clock of a “distant” observer or in its proper reference frame. The greater the velocity of a body receding from the plane, the greater the height to which it rises over the gravitating plane, however, the maximal height of its rise equals x=1/κ, i.e., the weaker the gravitational field, the greater the height ¦x¦ to which the body rises. We give a qualitative analysis of the arbitrary motion of a test body in a static Taub space.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 2, pp. 27–32, February, 1989.
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Borovko, E.V. Motion of a test body in Taub space. Soviet Physics Journal 32, 98–102 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00898667
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