Equation 43 · The Atlas That Refuses to Close
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varied away from the body’s own rest-frame observer to some other inertial observer boosted at velocity relative to it. Read the equation part by part below; each part has a contextual explanation and a link to its mathematical background.
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varied away from the body’s own rest-frame observer to some other inertial observer boosted at velocity relative to it.
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a shift transverse to both the spin and the relative velocity [ 13 ] . This is an exact identity of special relativity, not an approximation valid only for small v ; it holds all the way to v c , at which point || ||/(Mc) = exactly, since | | ||\,v saturates when the spin is perpendicular to the boost. No boosted observer, however extreme, can push a body’s own centroid further from its rest-frame value than . As u ranges over every inertial observer, traces out a disk of exactly that radius, orthogonal to — the world-tube first identified by Møller and reproduced in modern language…
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a shift transverse to both the spin and the relative velocity [ 13 ] . This is an exact identity of special relativity, not an approximation valid only for small v ; it holds all the way to v c , at which point || ||/(Mc) = exactly, since | | ||\,v saturates when the spin is perpendicular to the boost. No boosted observer, however extreme, can push a body’s own centroid further from its rest-frame value than . As u ranges over every inertial observer, traces out a disk of exactly that radius, orthogonal to — the world-tube first identified by Møller and reproduced in modern language by Costa and Natário’s review of spin supplementary conditions [ 13 ] .
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