[HN Gopher] Special Relativity: Lorentz Transformations (2018) [...
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Special Relativity: Lorentz Transformations (2018) [video]
Author : thunderbong
Score : 96 points
Date : 2023-08-09 07:44 UTC (3 days ago)
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| mrv_asura wrote:
| Great explanation. Now it makes sense! I briefly remember napping
| during my physics lectures looking over the transformation
| equations, which did not make sense to me. ( I know it's partly
| my fault but...)
| Vox_Leone wrote:
| Great content. Thanks for posting.
|
| And I want my spacetime globe!
| nihzm wrote:
| Another similarly incredible explanation is in the video by
| ScienceClic [1], which goes more into the geometric
| interpretation whereby Lorentz boosts are hyperbolic rotations of
| spacetime.
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| [1]: https://youtu.be/qdycfWfAtsM
| wintorez wrote:
| Came here to share this. Glad it's already shared.
| jw1224 wrote:
| ScienceClic is an incredible and underrated channel, glad to
| see it shared here!
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| angiosperm wrote:
| There is also Dialect's treatment:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKkH4IH-zmw
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| Their thing, if you look back on other recent videos, is that
| literally every physics channel on YT gets relativity
| embarrassingly wrong, each directly contradicting Einstein in
| one particular or other. It turns out people have
| interpretations incompatible with the maths, and say very
| foolish things they clearly have not thought through.
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