Re: Imaginary Space

On Jan 24, 5:09 pm, "Thomas Heger" <hba...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"wugi" <b...@xxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitragnews:47991107$0$832$5f6aeac3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



"Thomas Heger" :

My question is how to put spacetime and space into a plausible relation..
It
works fine if you regard space as the immaginary part of a quaternion. I
was
speculating about this possibility and found it not too crazy. A bit,
well,
yes.

About the competition between but eventual equivalence of quaternions and
vector notation seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion(#10.1
Use_controversy)

Space-time for SRT works fine in conventional geometric description.
Some graphic demonstrations :
http://home.scarlet.be/~pin12499/qbRelaty.html
http://home.scarlet.be/~pin12499/paratwin.htm

guido

Thanks for the links. My knowledge of dutch is limited so the letter links
are of limited use to me.

Do you understand my idea??
It is very simple. I like to look at GR in the perspective of time
evolution. Time is in this picture a real and space an imaginary axis. In
the euclidean view you have three real dimensions and a imaginary time.
Thats the view of a local observer and quite the same, but of different
signatur. The quaternion is 'flipped'.

Since quaternions are good in describing rotations I like to use them in the
sense of feynmans rotating vectors. Those elements rotate with different
speed (frequency) but same speed of propagation (c). And they propagate in
all directions, that are directions of time. If you follow at some point,
you are co-moving, what makes time imaginary and space real.

Thomas Heger- Hide quoted text -

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aren't you just describing something with no spacelike vector ?
something that cannot move except timelike?
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