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can you explain what you mean?
by morpheos137 5y ago
can you explain what you mean?
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoOf course not! It's jibberish to the same extent that "space is time rotated through 90 degrees" is. Fun, but jibberish.
- drdeca 5y agoI don’t think exactly the same extent. In Minkowski space, if you pick an orthonormal basis, one of the basis elements will be timelike and the other 3 will be spacelike, and the timelike one will be orthogonal to any linear combination of the spacelike ones, which, I think almost justifies saying that they are “90 degrees from one-another”. I agree that saying it is “space rotated 90 degrees” is, not really right. There’s no rotation that would rotate all the special directions to a time direction, that wouldn’t make sense. 1 ≠ 3 and all that. But there’s a bit of something kind of right in it.
- rbanffy 5y agoHNers take jokes far too seriously.