Recent content by Nadeen

:) JB, I hope you don't mind me calling you JB, you, and all the others who welcomed me and for some astonishing reason liked my post, have made this old girl's day! Thank you.

I've actually come across Minkowski geometry for the first time today when I was reading up on the subject. Will definitely look more and see if I can find some lectures on YT later. The example of the signature that you have given, is that where the time coordinate is placed last? The one I...

Thank you! This is the first time I've seen it described this way, really helpful visualisation. I don't pretend to having wrapped my head around it all but your examples made it so much more comprehensible.

Thank you, jbriggs444. I suspected as much but was afraid that in my own ignorance I may have missed something. As to the main body of your response, may I ask... If the timelike separation between the two events is measurable and invariant, how does the time dilation fit into this picture? Or...

As per my intro post, I don’t consider myself to have any science background beyond high school education. In a philosophy thread about time on City-Data Forum, where most of the entries are just general unscientific musings, I saw the following post: “Time is a distance in spacetime: v =x/t...

Thank you, Zz. This is very helpful indeed.

Thank you both. Much appreciated. I'll try to word my question as best as I can and post it sometime today. Again, thank you!

Hello As this post suggests, I’m new here. I have no science background but often find myself browsing scientific forums and blogs which compound my sense of inadequacy and ignorance. I yearn to understand things, to be able to filter through faux erudition and general nonsense. A lot of the...