Timeline for Isometry between Minkowski space and Tangent space
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| May 17, 2022 at 19:35 | comment | added | J. Murray | @kricheli If you wish, but I tend to regard that as being conceptually muddled. For instance, there is no such thing as the tangent space to a manifold - only the tangent space to a manifold at a point. The fact that the manifold $\mathbb R^n$ and the vector space $(\mathbb R^n,+,\cdot,\mathbb R)$ have the same carrier set can be the source of great confusion. | |
| May 17, 2022 at 19:30 | vote | accept | amilton moreira | ||
| May 17, 2022 at 19:29 | comment | added | amilton moreira | @ kricheli what do you mean by identify Minkowski spacetime with its tangent space? | |
| May 17, 2022 at 19:28 | comment | added | amilton moreira | "what he means is that it is isomorphic to the tangent space to Minkowski spacetime at any arbitrarily chosen point" that was my confusion | |
| May 17, 2022 at 19:26 | comment | added | kricheli | ...and of course you can identify Minkowski spacetime with its tangent space. | |
| May 17, 2022 at 19:23 | history | answered | J. Murray | CC BY-SA 4.0 |