What Is The Geometry Of Spacetime? — What Kinds Of Inner-Products/Metrics?
Monday, November 26, 2012 - 18:40
in Physics & Chemistry
We ended the second article in this series with the audacious claim that we have obtained the METRIC.1 Quite frankly, I expected to hear a howl of protest to my brazen assertion that we had actually gotten so far. We certainly hadn't obtained anything quite like the usual matrix or tensor form of a metric, or even a "line element", nor had we seen how this has any relationship to the usual "strangeness" of the Special Theory of Relativity.It is the issues/questions of the metric, its relationship to the inner or dot product, and read more