Timeline for Confusion about timelike spatial coordinates
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Jun 23 at 19:20 | history | edited | Aiden | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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Jun 23 at 17:43 | comment | added | Aiden | @AidanBeecher I've updated my answer to address these questions. In short, it depends on your coordinate system. The biggest issue with such trajectories is the breakdown of causality. | |
Jun 23 at 17:42 | history | edited | Aiden | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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Jun 23 at 10:55 | comment | added | Aidan Beecher | I think this makes sense, thank you. My last question has to do with the fact that $dt/ds=0$ in this case. If such a particle does not move through time, is that the same as saying that it only exists for an instant? Does it exist at all points in $x$ simultaneously? Or does it not make sense to ask what we would observe of this particle for some reason? | |
Jun 23 at 10:46 | vote | accept | Aidan Beecher | ||
Jun 23 at 7:55 | history | edited | Aiden | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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Jun 23 at 7:48 | history | answered | Aiden | CC BY-SA 4.0 |