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timelike

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Meaning

  1. adjective Of a four-vector in representing a point in spacetime, having a positive or negative four-vector norm for the metric signature (+, -, -, -) and (-, +, +, +) respectively.
  2. adjective Having overlapping light cones, so that information can pass from one to the other, and one can be envisaged as a cause of the other.

Similar words

geodesic geodesics time-like mostly plus four-dimensional scalar time-dependent tesseractic vectorlike conormal

Often followed by

curves curve and vector or geodesic geodesics lines world

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