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jaketodd
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I know the surface of the Lorentz transformations.
When comparing two rates though, why is it simply not rate over rate (rate/rate)?
Like when comparing two rates of time, due to time dilation, why is it not just time over time (time/time)? I can see that the units would cancel to just 1, and so you'd have no such thing as time. Meters per second compared to different meters per second. (m/s)/(m/s)=unitless. What is the foundation for comparing these so the units don't cancel?
When comparing two rates though, why is it simply not rate over rate (rate/rate)?
Like when comparing two rates of time, due to time dilation, why is it not just time over time (time/time)? I can see that the units would cancel to just 1, and so you'd have no such thing as time. Meters per second compared to different meters per second. (m/s)/(m/s)=unitless. What is the foundation for comparing these so the units don't cancel?