Visualizing proper-time in Special Relativity

Details Visualizing proper-time in Special Relativity Visualizing proper-time in Special Relativity

2005-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0505134v1

Physics Teacher (Indian Physical Society), v46 (4), pp. 132-143 (October-December 2004)

Physics

Physics Education

11 pages, 14 figures, to appear

Scientific paper

We present a new visualization of the proper-time elapsed along an observer's
worldline. By supplementing worldlines with light clocks, the measurement of
space-time intervals is reduced to the "counting of ticks." The resulting
space-time diagrams are pedagogically attractive because they emphasize the
relativistic view that "time is what is measured by an observer's clock."

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