What is the relationship between phase space and space-time?

Loren Booda · Mar 20, 2011

How would you describe the intersection between phase space and space-time?

Fredrik · Mar 21, 2011

Intersection? Spacetime is the configuration space of a single classical point particle. That particle's phase space is the cotangent bundle of spacetime.

I know very little about these things, but I hope that I at least got the above right. The best place to read more about such things is almost certainly "Mathematical methods of classical mechanics" by V.I. Arnold.

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