Minkowski space

Indefinitely many occasions of experience can overlap in Minkowski space.

Flat Minkowski space is the simplest example of a vacuum solution.

For this reason Minkowski space is often referred to as flat spacetime.

This article uses the (+ ) metric signature for Minkowski space.

In special relativity these are straight lines in Minkowski space.

The idea of Minkowski space led to special relativity being viewed in a more geometrical way.

Elements of Minkowski space are called events or four-vectors.

The section above defines Minkowski space as a vector space.

At a given event on a world line, spacetime (Minkowski space) is divided into three parts.

Consequently, we are now dealing with a curved generalization of Minkowski space.

An observer moving with fixed traces out a hyperbola in Minkowski space.

An example of a null field is a plane electromagnetic wave in Minkowski space.

Passing from one reference frame to another corresponds to rotating the Minkowski space.

It is worth remembering here that space time as seen from free fall would locally be a Minkowski space.

Special relativity uses a 'flat' 4-dimensional Minkowski space - an example of a space-time.

The spacetime interval between two events in Minkowski space is either:

This terminology comes from the use of Minkowski space in the theory of relativity.

Thus, the structure of Minkowski space is still essential in the description of general relativity.

Animation clip visualizing Minkowski space in the context of special relativity.

So the local observer should feel accelerated in ordinary Minkowski space by the principle of equivalence.

These relations say that the generators commute as thereby recovering usual Minkowski space.

In a different language, it is the group of linear isometries of the Minkowski space.

A path through the four-dimensional spacetime (usually known as Minkowski space) is called a world line.

Both these line-elements are then continuous with the Minkowski space (3.6) in region I.

The straight-line path is therefore the longest path in Minkowski space.