POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : 4D : Re: 4D Server Time
5 Sep 2024 09:24:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 4D  
From: Darren New
Date: 21 Oct 2009 11:40:26
Message: <4adf2b6a$1@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> Well, AFAIK there's actually no fundamental reason to apply different 
> "measuring tapes" to time and space: 

It's not measured *quite* the same way... The distance between two events is 
sqrt(x*x+y*y+z*z-t*t) Note the - sign.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".


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