Re:Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?
by TeMPOraL on Monday August 31, 2020 @01:51AM
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Thank you for clear explanation. I wonder how changes in 4-vector velocity relate to "energy & momentum" 4-vector? Does that vector also have fixed magnitude?
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Re:Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?
by cygx on Monday August 31, 2020 @07:25AM
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Does that vector also have fixed magnitude?
It's magnitude is called 'mass' (or 'rest mass'/'invariant mass' if you want to differentiate it from the concept of 'relativistic mass', which probably should be retired).
This means we have
four-momentum = mass * four-velocity
whereas three-momentum = gamma * mass * three-velocity
Re:Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?
by alexpetralia on Saturday September 05, 2020 @10:41AM
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Not sure if you will find this comment, but I'd be very curious to hear what the magnitudes of "four-force" and "four-potential" are as well!
My layman's research suggest these are, respectively, "electric charge" and "current"?
Re:Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?
by cygx on Monday September 07, 2020 @06:38AM
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That doesn't sound right to me. Note that four-force is a generic concept not limited to electromagnetism. Current is the source term of Maxwell's equations, which connect it to the potential via the d'Alembert operator.
Re:Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?
by mpcjanssen on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:34AM
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There is indeed also a relation between momentum and (rest) energy describing the conservation of energy,
In the rest frame this relation reduces to the famous E=mc^2.
Re:Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?
by CuriousSkeptic on Monday August 31, 2020 @05:56PM
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So Feynman diagrams describe rotations?