Darren New schrieb:
> 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.

It /is/ measured in the same way - it's just that the Pythagorean 
theorem doesn't hold in our peculiar (3+1)D universe...

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