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At t = 0, this corresponds to the two heavy dots in the sketch, one at the origin and the other on the unit hyperbola. But all points on the unit hyperbola are at an interval of 1 meter from the origin. The observer at rest therefore concludes, unsurprisingly, that the meter stick is 1 meter long. How long does a moving observer think the stick is? This length is just the width of the worldsheet as measured by the moving observer. This 40 6. 2. Length contraction as a hyperbolic projection: (a) object at rest and observer in motion; (b) object in motion and observer at rest.

A right triangle is one that contains a right angle. By the above discussion, one of the legs of such a triangle must be spacelike and the other timelike. Consider first the case where the hypotenuse is either spacelike or timelike. 5. 4. Some hyperbolic right triangles. like sides if the hypotenuse is timelike and between the two spacelike sides if the hypotenuse is spacelike. 4(a)–(d). 5; such triangles do not have any hyperbolic angles. 5(c), right angles do not always look like right angles.

2(a), where the horizontal lines show the meter stick at various times (according to an observer at rest). How “wide” is the worldsheet of the stick? The observer at rest, of course, measures the length of the stick by locating both ends at the same time and measuring the distance between them. At t = 0, this corresponds to the two heavy dots in the sketch, one at the origin and the other on the unit hyperbola. But all points on the unit hyperbola are at an interval of 1 meter from the origin. The observer at rest therefore concludes, unsurprisingly, that the meter stick is 1 meter long.

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