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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Definition : relativistic (or not) hyperplane Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 11:52:14 +0300 Organization: - Lines: 20 Message-ID: <vdoabu$5oqv$1@dont-email.me> References: <WqkjY-SY6_uddYqUv_3gfUAZjb0@jntp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 10:52:14 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b1c47a2304f6556c191fc9394816e07b"; logging-data="189279"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ZoyClnEy6rXYZ7xTyRbCq" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:XliFVArF5VAdSWVIKMlkvi4QWEE= Bytes: 1755 On 2024-10-03 18:13:33 +0000, Richard Hachel said: > A hyperplane of simultaneity is a geometric concept used mainly in > relativistic physics. > In a four-dimensional orthonormal framework (three dimensions of space > and one dimension of time), it represents the set of points in > space-time that are considered simultaneous for a given observer; the > hypersurface that contains all the events that, for him, occur at the > same time. > This "hyperplane of the present", which is represented as a horizontal > sheet, therefore actually represents a three-dimensional space. A hyperplane is a subspace of a multi-dimensional space that fully contains those straight lines that have at least two pints in common with the subspace. Often but not always the term is used only for subspaces that are at least three-dimensional. -- Mikko