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Tensors

Originally, while writing the previous post, I was convinced that this one should be devoted to the Grassmann (or exterior) algebra.  I even began drafting it and managed about half a page before realizing that, if the promise of a … Continue reading

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Growing Out of the Sandbox

On my other blog, I spent quite some time exploring a simplified universe—one defined by just one spatial and one temporal dimension. When space is only one-dimensional, the possibilities for motion are strictly limited: light can travel either to the … Continue reading

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Minkowski patches in the Einstein universe

This post is a continuation of Floating in the Einstein Universe. Let us recall the relevant definition from the previous post.     . So is the union of all light rays through p. For we have only two light … Continue reading

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