Re: Failure of SR (and GR)?
From: David Rutherford (drutherford_at_softcom.net)
Date: 06/05/04
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Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 00:16:10 -0700
Bilge wrote:
> David Rutherford:
> >bilge:
> >> The metric is wrong. We obviously don't live in a universe with
> >> a metric which has a signature (++++) as is evident by the fact
> >> that we can't turn around in time like we can turn around in space.
> >
> >Where did you get the idea that the signature has anything to do with
> >our ability to turn around in time?
>
> From the fact that a metric which is (++++) gives me a euclidean
> spacetime so that a rotation of pi/2 in the x-t plane leaves me
> facing backwards in time.
The signs in the signature represent the signs in the spacetime metric.
The spacetime metric gives the squared spacetime interval between two
events. The spacetime interval doesn't leave you "facing" in any
direction in space _or_ time - it's a _non-directional_ scalar quantity.
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