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I'd be interested to know your opinion on space-time algebras. They seem like they would provide a nice way of unifying spatial rotations and Lorentz boosts, bu

• nyssos 3y ago
  Spacetime algebra is just the Clifford algebra Cl_1_3(R), so all of the above applies. > They seem like they would provide a nice way of unifying spatial rotations and Lorentz boosts Yes and no: the right way to unify rotations and boosts is to consider them as the orientation-preserving elements of the Lorentz group (sometimes called the proper Lorentz group). You can construct this from the corresponding Clifford algebra, but it's somewhat technical and not physically well-motivated until you start dealing with spinors. It's also the group of symmetries of spacetime that leave the origin unchanged, which is far, far more natural.