Image talk:Lorentz transform of world line.gif
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Solid Gold! Kevmitch 06:57, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
I feel dizzy now... Falos 15:27, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- Cool. It's today's featured picture. No idea that was gonna happen. It's just that trippy. --Falos 13:54, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A suggestion for greater clarity
Yes, this is a really good animation. I have added it to an article Milne Model I've been working on.
I have a suggestion for an improvement if you have time. Currently you have created a series of random events which are not associated with any physical bodies, or necessarily causally connected in any way. This is great, and it really gets across the idea of the Lorentz Transformation applied to an accelerating observer.
So this is a minor improvement, and may not add a whole lot to it, but if you add line segments between causally connected events, this represents the permanent positions of actual objects. These lines would move along the horizontal axis at speeds greater than that of light as your observer accelerated.
If you're interested in trying this, let me know and if needed I can give more specific advice on how to modify the code. I'd do it myself, but I don't have the software.
Thanks, JDoolin 17:19, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Random Events
I know hardly anything about physics, but aren't the random events only allowed to happen within the boundaries of the light cones? In this image they seem to pass through the boundaries unaffected or undrawn towards the singularity. Ingore me if I'm talking nonsense. Yeanold Viskersenn 15:50, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- The upper cone indicates influencable spacetime; the lower cone indicates observed spacetime. The important thing is that no events move into the upper light cone (no part of spacetime becomes influencable which previously was not), and no events move out of the lower light cone (no part of spacetime becomes unobserved which was previously observed). mennsa 17:44, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
