From: Xela@yabbs To: JasonLee@yabbs Subject: part deux Date: Mon Mar 7 22:11:32 1994 The designation of space-time coordinates involves the recognition of position and time of an event p. p has space-time coordinates [x,y,z,t] relative to coord-system S and clock C. p has space-time coord [x',y',z',t'] relative to S' and clock C'. If you can recall from linear algebra, a mapping (or linear transformation) can be defined such that for event p at [x,y,z,t] with respect to S and C: T(v):R^4 -> R^4 and T(v)[x,y,z,t] = [x',y',z',t'] T(v), read T sub v, is one-to-one and onto. That is, each value in the domain has a unique value in the range, and each value in the domain is guaranteed an "image" or a transformation, from T(v). Because my screen is looking funny, I'll continue this in the next message...