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Re: Why time can't be a dimension
Posted:
Mar 8, 2012 6:18 PM
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On 3/8/2012 4:49 PM, Sue... wrote:
> On Mar 3, 10:58 pm, "microm2...@hotmail.com"<microm2...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Its substance shares dimensionality of space. But it is unidrectional
>> or forward alone.
>> All dimensions have two directions. Time does not.
>>
>> Mitchell Raemsch
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> <<the four-dimensional space-time continuum of the theory of
> relativity, in its most essential formal properties, shows a
> pronounced relationship to the three-dimensional continuum of
> Euclidean geometrical space. 1 In order to give due prominence to this
> relationship, however, we must replace the usual time co-ordinate t by
> an imaginary magnitude
>
> sqrt -1
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> ct proportional to it. Under these conditions, the natural laws
> satisfying the demands of the (special) theory of relativity assume
> mathematical forms, in which the time co-ordinate plays exactly the
> same rôle as the three space co-ordinates.>>
> http://www.bartleby.com/173/17.html
>
Dennis, you've been replaced. There's an Irrelevant Link Bot (ILB - TM)
that is already in full force here now -- Mike Cavedon.
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