JesseM
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Well, you can think about it just in terms of considering a particular set of events--events which happen to be simultaneous and form a sphere in one frame, while they are non-simultaneous and their positions form an ellipsoid in the other. It's not illegal to consider how the same set of physical events looks in two different frames. But the original claim about the stationary frame being treated as "Euclidean" and the other as "Minkowski" still doesn't make sense, since even once you have labeled one frame as "stationary", you are still free to pick a set of events that form a sphere in the non-stationary frame and an ellipsoid in the stationary one.espen180 said:These three points confirm that the light sphere/light ellipsoid discussion is simply nonphysical. It is a result of combining measurements from different frames, which is illegal. The OP should now be convinced that his earlier claims about Euclidean spaces and whatnot are flawed.