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Due to technical problems uploading to this site, I posted a new article over here: http://lorentzframe.blogspot.com/
Consider the following snapshot from a Geometry-Expressions (GX) ( http://www.geometryexpressions.com ) file: The blue coordinate-frame lines represent our inertial frame, at rest with respect to us. The red coordinate-frame lines represent another inertial...
Should have said last time that space-time "curvature" is relativity code-speak for "acceleration" or "gravitation." It's often something one can feel. Here's an imaginary example. Put a very precise atomic clock...
One of the groups that I have lunch with likes to discuss physics and astronomy. During one of these lunches, there was a bit of confusion about the Theory of Relativity (ToR), with people not being quite sure whether it means that measurements depend...
Reference: “Feynman’s Lost Lecture, The Motion of Planets Around the Sun,” by David L. Goodstein and Judith R. Goodstein, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1996. Richard Feynman was one of the most important physicists of all time...
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