POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : 4D : Re: 4D Server Time
5 Sep 2024 07:21:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 4D  
From: Kevin Wampler
Date: 21 Oct 2009 15:24:15
Message: <4adf5fdf$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Kevin Wampler wrote:
>> Darren New wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes. I wasn't sure if that counted as a euclidian space or not. :-)
>>>
>>
>> It doesn't, but it does share the property that the metric tensor is 
>> constant over the entire space.
> 
>  my head asplode


It was just a fancy way of saying that there's a sense in which the 
spacetime isn't "curved"; which I probably should have just said in the 
first place since the way I phrased it should really be made more 
precise to be accurate anyway.


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