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Natural Science Forum / Physics / Relativity / January 2007



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is time orthogonal on which axe?

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Mucho Grande - 29 Jan 2007 21:01 GMT
accortingg dimension  definition, time should be orthogonal
either on x-axe, y-axe or z-axa

what is time t orthogonal on?
JanPB - 30 Jan 2007 00:20 GMT
> accortingg dimension  definition, time should be orthogonal
> either on x-axe, y-axe or z-axa
>
> what is time t orthogonal on?

It need not be orthogonal - just linearly independent of x, y, z is
enough.

In special cases like Minkowski or Schwarzschild or Kruskal-Szekeres
coordinates the t-coordinate is orthogonal to both x and y and z.

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Jan Bielawski
 
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