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Re:The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics by ssivark on Friday July 20, 2018 @02:22PM (#17577482)
To be fair, one never talks of relativistic "velocities" beyond undergrad physics. It is much easier to talk about Lorentz "boosts", and as members of a Lie Group, they are associative, though not commutative.
Re:The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics by throwaway37585 on Friday July 20, 2018 @05:32PM (#17579125)
This. It's better to just make the full leap into spacetime geometry (4-vectors and 4-tensors) than keep trying to slice it into annoying 3-vectors.