What we are going to discuss next is whether the sequence of states {… S-2, S-1, S0, S+1, S+2,…} is a physical reality or, on the contrary, is a purely mathematical construction, such that the concept of past, present and future is exclusively a consequence of the perception o...
Presents the views of the author on the physical interpretation of the Lorentz transformation. Exponential form of homogeneous Lorentz λ transformation; Summation of the matrix algebraic exponentials; Calculation of the possible of the rotation angle Ω.Sartor...
the disadvantage of Lorenz, who nowadays is rightfully credited as the discoverer of the advantage of the Lorenz gauge. In many older textbooks they called it "Lorentz gauge", but Lorentz used it some years later than Lorenz, and so it's more to the historical facts to call it Lorenz ...
In Special Relativity (SR) the block universe view of time arises from an interpretation of the Lorentz transformation equation known as the Rietdijk-Putnam argument (or the Andromeda paradox.) By this innovation of SR, just walking on the earth toward or away from the Andromeda Galaxy which i...
When we're talking about S.R., that transformation is defined as the Lorentz transformation. When we're talking about Euclidean geometry, I don't know which transformation you have in mind. As I mentioned, some things are invariant with respect, say, to rotation and translation, and not ...
Did you know that Amazon started as a seller of used college textbooks? Although the company is now selling millions more products (and making billions more dollars), it started with a simple idea of getting books delivered to college kids. This mind-blowing transformation is quite possibly one...
They suggested that it only makes sense to define temperature in the rest frame I, and therefore, their conclusion is that no general Lorentz transformation for temperature and other thermodynamic quantities exist. This last view has also been supported by an important number of authors10,11,12,...
Of course not, because Dingle's argument is obviously specious; the partial derivatives ∂x′/∂x and ∂x/∂x′ are not the algebraic reciprocals of each other.As noted previously, the application of Dingle's argument to the Lorentz transformation is exactly the same. Two inertial ...
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Little wonder then why the speed of light is the metric used to determine astronomical distances. When we say a star like Proxima Centauri is 4.25 light years away, we are saying that it would take – traveling at a constant speed of 1.07 billion km per hour (670,616,629 mph) – about...