> > 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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