Hermann Minkowski Pioneers the Concept of a Four-Dimensional Space-Time Continuum
Overview
There is no doubt that Albert Einstein's (1879-1955) relativity theory changed the way we view the uni...
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Instantaneous Events
In the realm of mathematics, "instantaneous events" refer not to events that occur in an incredibly short amount of time, but to events that occur at an exact point within a defin...
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Space-Time
Space-time is the coordinate system used to describe the universe. The simplest physical view of space-time, and the one most commonly used, is four-dimensional, assuming three dimensions o...
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Space-Time
In 1905 Albert Einstein published his seminal paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies." In it he put forth his "Principle of Relativity," which soon gave the work the name by which i...
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Space-Time Geometry
The Special theory of relativity, which included the concept of space-time, dealt only with relations between measurements made by inertial observers. This restriction to non-accel...
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Vectors in Space-Time
The development of relativistic physics requires the use of a geometry adequate to account for the structure of spacetime. Whereas special relativity describes the non-quantum ph...
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Warping of Space and Time
In relativistic physics, the warping of space-time refers to the geometry of the universe resulting from the theory of general relativity. This geometry can no longer be desc...
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Hermann Minkowski Pioneers the Concept of a Four-Dimensional Space-Time Continuum
Instantaneous Events
Space-Time
Warping of Space and Time