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Other Can't shake the feeling I should be in Physics....
I graduated with a first class honors undergraduate in experimental Physics from the top university in my country - the degree was plainly called Physics but the university does offer a Theoretical Physics course too. After a year of unemployment and not knowing what to do in life, I enrolled...- Boon
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- Forum: STEM Career Guidance
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Graduate Grasping the Properties of Minkowski Space
Thanks for your reply. It seems that I've misunderstood the nature of Minkowski space indeed. Regarding the Lorentz transformations - what other forms can they take? I'm only familiar with their representation as 4x4 square matrices that include elements which are hyperbolic trigonometric...- Boon
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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Graduate Grasping the Properties of Minkowski Space
I'm trying to get an intuitive feel for Minkowski space in the context of Special Relativity. I should mention that I have not studied (but hope to) the mathematics of topology, manifolds, curved spaced etc., but I'm loosely familiar with some of the basic concepts. I understand that spacetime...- Boon
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- Geometry Metric Minkowski Minkowski space Properties Relativity Space
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity