Timeline for Can we actually have null curves in Minkowski space?
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| Sep 12, 2016 at 15:38 | answer | added | Klock | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 22, 2015 at 11:13 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhysics/status/657152705941647360 | ||
| Oct 20, 2015 at 13:20 | vote | accept | raul | ||
| Oct 20, 2015 at 13:04 | answer | added | user2309840 | timeline score: 10 | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 11:27 | comment | added | raul | I'm reading about Twistors by the way... | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 11:26 | comment | added | raul | No, for instance. A lot of books consider a congruence of null curves that can have some shear... If are lines, how is it possible to they to have shear? and then what is the purpose of the Newman-Penrose formalism in special relativity? | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 11:21 | comment | added | John Rennie | Is it just the terminology that is confusing you, i.e. the terms line and curve? If so, the term curve includes straight lines. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 11:20 | comment | added | Slereah | A line is a curve. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 11:14 | history | asked | raul | CC BY-SA 3.0 |