Sunday, March 8, 2015

special relativity - Why doesn't time change in the non-relativistic limit of Lorentz transformations?


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: x0x0,x1x1+vcx0


How come the zeroth component is not linearized to x0x0+vcx1? Is that because there is another factor c in the time components? Since x0=ct, that would mean the time is transformed like tt+vc2x,

and c2 is just so small that is ignored?


Or is it just to fit the Galilei transformation?




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