POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : 4D : Re: 4D Server Time
8 Oct 2024 20:52:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 4D  
From: Invisible
Date: 21 Oct 2009 11:41:13
Message: <4adf2b99$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> 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.

Hence "non-Euclidian space".


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