Re: Vector field

From: Mike (eleatis_at_yahoo.gr)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: 3 Feb 2005 13:51:02 -0800

Dirk Van de moortel wrote:
> "Randy Poe" <poespam-trap@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1107464354.998658.233520@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> > Mike wrote:
> > > That's what we are saying but you miss the point. Events in
spacetime
> > > do not form a vector space because they do not have an inverse.
> >
> > The assignment of an origin is arbitrary. I can assign my
> > current position at 4 PM Eastern time the coordinates
> > (0,0,0,0).
> >
> > > A
> > > requirement of a vector space V is that its elements have an
inverse:
> > >
> > > (X)+(-X) = 0
> >
> > So?
> >
> > With the above origin, an event with coordinates
> > (1 m,1 m,1 m,10 m) happens 10 seconds after 4 pm,
> > at a point just about at the upper right corner
> > of my cubicle.
> >
> > The additive inverse: (-1, -1, -1, -10) corresponds
> > to an event which happened 10 seconds before 4 pm,
> > at about where my trash can is located.
> >
> > Since I'm very confident that my trash can existed
> > at 10 seconds before 4 pm, I feel confident that
> > both X and -X can meaningfully be assigned as
> > spacetime coordinates for events.
> >
> > - Randy
>
> Randy, just a little warning....
> Androcles is immensely stupid and disgustingly malicious, as
> you well know. I think you will find that Mike (aka Bill Smith,
> aka Undeniable aka Eleatis aka ...) is slightly less stupid, but
> vastly more malicious...
> Enjoy anyway ;-)
>
> Dirk Vdm

Dinky-Donkey is both highly stupid and vastly malicious, that is the
union of the sets he described.

I vonder Dinky-Donkey, vouat do you think about the subject? Do voui
live in a block universe?

I voud highly appreciate to be included in the highly respected Pandora
site along vi the oder dissidents of Relativity, a.k.a. Theory of
Absolutes (didout absolute time) a.k.a. Theory of Invariants, a.k.a.
Theory of the Grand Stupidity.

Mike

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