A simple boost in the x direction is given by: Λ=(cosh(ρ)sinh(ρ)00sinh(ρ)cosh(ρ)0000100001)
Which get linearized to the following transformation: x0↦x0,x1↦x1+vcx0
How come the zeroth component is not linearized to x0↦x0+vcx1? Is that because there is another factor c in the time components? Since x0=ct, that would mean the time is transformed like t↦t+vc2x,
and c−2 is just so small that is ignored?
Or is it just to fit the Galilei transformation?
No comments:
Post a Comment