Huxley (ed.), Relativity Theory, London: Chapman & Hall, ISBN 0-415-0288-9 Proper reference frame (flat spacetime) Comoving distance Rest frame v t e...

A proper reference frame in the theory of relativity is a particular form of accelerated reference frame, that is, a reference frame in which an accelerated...

the spacelike components of the 4-velocity Proper reference frame (flat spacetime): accelerated reference frame in special relativity (Minkowski space) Fictitious...

overview of accelerations in flat spacetime, see Acceleration (special relativity) and Proper reference frame (flat spacetime). In this article, the speed...

spacetime interval between two events that are simultaneous in one's frame of reference. But events that are simultaneous in one frame of reference are...

accelerated frames in the context of special relativity, see Proper reference frame (flat spacetime). In such frames, effects arise which are analogous to homogeneous...

attributed to geodesic motion in spacetime. Due to Earth's rotation, its surface is not an inertial frame of reference. The Coriolis effect can deflect...

spacetimes are considered. It is, however, possible to define the proper distance along a path in any spacetime, curved or flat. In a flat spacetime,...

A spacetime diagram is a graphical illustration of locations in space at various times, especially in the special theory of relativity. Spacetime diagrams...

straight line is a geodesic in flat Minkowski spacetime), or the coordinate distance between the events in the inertial frame where they are simultaneous...

In physics, spherically symmetric spacetimes are commonly used to obtain analytic and numerical solutions to Einstein's field equations in the presence...

arbitrary submanifold. Mathematics portal Physics portal Proper reference frame (flat spacetime)#Proper coordinates or Fermi coordinates Geodesic normal coordinates...

relative to a reference frame: it is a "point" in spacetime. Since the speed of light is constant in relativity irrespective of the reference frame, pulses...

application of accelerations in flat spacetime, see Acceleration (special relativity) and proper reference frame (flat spacetime). From experience by inertial...

In flat spacetime, proper velocity is the ratio between distance traveled relative to a reference map frame (used to define simultaneity) and proper time...

property of the surrounding spacetime. A simplified 1+1-dimensional version of the Taub–NUT spacetime is the Misner spacetime. McGraw-Hill Science & Technology...

previously flat spacetime and move away at effectively faster-than-light speed. The interior of the bubble is an inertial reference frame and inhabitants...

measurement of proper distance rather than proper time. For lightlike paths, there exists no concept of proper time and it is undefined as the spacetime interval...

Frame-dragging is an effect on spacetime, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, that is due to non-static stationary distributions...

The model helps show how a spacetime interval between any two events is independent of the inertial frame of reference in which they are recorded. Mathematician...

(1981). "Transformation from proper time on Earth to coordinate time in solar system barycentric space-time frame of reference". Celestial Mechanics. 23...

single moment in time) and traveling in all directions, would take through spacetime. If one imagines the light confined to a two-dimensional plane, the light...

is measured to be shorter than its proper length, which is the length as measured in the object's own rest frame. It is also known as Lorentz contraction...

simplification is achieved in approximating the spacetime as having only small deviations from flat spacetime, leading to the linearized EFE. These equations...

speed of light in the reference frame of any coincident observer.[citation needed] However, it permits distortions in spacetime that allow an object to...

The Kerr metric or Kerr geometry describes the geometry of empty spacetime around a rotating uncharged axially symmetric black hole with a quasispherical...

moving relative to a particular frame of reference is defined by four coordinate functions xμ(τ), where μ is a spacetime index which takes the value 0 for...

worldline) of an object is the path that an object traces in 4-dimensional spacetime. It is an important concept of modern physics, and particularly theoretical...

system of other spacetime diagrams for local asymptotically flat spacetime, it introduces a system of representing distant spacetime by shrinking or "triturando"...

paradox for application of the same formula to a rotating reference frame in flat spacetime. A common equation used to determine gravitational time dilation...