Re: invariance of negative signature of the metric?
- From: stevendaryl3016@xxxxxxxxx (Daryl McCullough)
- Date: 12 Mar 2008 07:12:48 -0700
On Mar 11, 11:32 am, "Ken S. Tucker" <dynam...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can you find a reason to exclude
&x / &x' = sqrt(-1)
as a legit transformation coefficient?
I'm sure that it's possible to work perfectly well with
complex coordinates. But the notion of a metric "signature"
only makes sense if the coordinates are real.
--
Daryl McCullough
Ithaca, NY
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