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The definition of Lorentz transformation
I know that the Lorentz transformation, when two frames $\mathcal{S}$ and $\mathcal{S}'$ are in standard configuration (the axes are all parallel to their counterparts in the other inertial frame) is ...
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A physical sense of an Inertial frame
Definition clarification needed, please: I am hoping to get physical sense of an "inertial frame".
Do inertial reference frames all have zero curvature for their spacetime?
So is an inertial frame ...
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does a rotating moving body in “flat” space curve its path because of frame dragging?
I am not a physicist.
let's say we have a space with an object in it, where all other gravitational bodies are so far away that their affect on the shape of the space is negligible.
let's say the ...
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Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and its relation to Inertial Frames
We know that CMB is isotropic when viewed outside of the spinning and revolving earth.
Is it homogeneous?
Can we relate CMB to an inertial frame in the Newtonian sense (in which space and time are ...
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Determining Ether Drag - Aberration of Starlight
In order to determine the relative motion between the Earth and the ether (the medium through which light supposedly propagated. It has zero density and complete transparency), scientists used the ...
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Why does the local inertial compass coincide with the stellar compass?
I found this physics paper via a non-duality site and I wished that I could understand it. Could someone please either read it and explain it to me or else point me to pages that would help me ...
