The following paradox is raised and resolved: Both the energy density T00 and the spatial stresses Tkl are (independent) sources of the tensor gravitational field in general relativity. Yet the general Schwarzschild exterior solution depends only on one parameter m, related to T00, so that no properties of Tij “propagate” to affect an outside observer.

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