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An immortal fumble by Oren C. Webster (Eleaticus) (22-Nov-2004)

"It is not a scaling factor, schzoid"
> > Idiot. I understand that y'all have the convention in which you call t and x
> > the same thing units wise, but it is an admission you can't support the
> > corrupt idiocy of SR.

> > It is (ct)^2 - x^2.  t^2-x^2 is idiocy.

> The constant c is a multiplicative scaling factor. One can redefine the
> units so the invariant is t^2 - x^2. In many contexts c is rescales to
> equal 1 to make the formulas cleaner.

It is not a scaling factor, schzoid. A scaling factor is something like
(length measure scale A units)/(length measure scale B units. Not of
completely different dimensions.

eleaticus
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