POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : 4D : Re: 4D Server Time
5 Sep 2024 09:26:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 4D  
From: Darren New
Date: 21 Oct 2009 12:03:50
Message: <4adf30e6$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> 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".

Yes. I wasn't sure if that counted as a euclidian space or not. :-)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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