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- From: pete_leaback@cix.compulink.co.uk (Peter Leaback)
- Subject: Unit of space-time.
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:23:00 +0000
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- From my singularly unmathematical book on relativity (Bertrand Russell's
- "ABC of Relativity"), I can't make up my mind as to what the unit of an
- interval is.
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- From the definitions of space-like and time-like interval, it reads as
- M and S respectively. From looking at the right angle triangle descriptions
- of interval, the space-like and time-like intervals are both M. Is it that
- 1 S is interchangeable with 3x10^-6 M ?
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- M/S or MS don't seem appropriate either.
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- Thanks,
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- Pete Leaback.
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