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Special Relativity

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3 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Special Relativity.

  • Proper reference frame (flat spacetime) — An accelerated coordinate frame in Minkowski spacetime built around an observer's worldline, proper time, and carried spatial axes.
  • Rest frame — An inertial reference frame in which the specified particle or system has zero spatial momentum or remains at fixed spatial coordinates.
  • Wigner rotation — The spatial rotation component produced when non-collinear Lorentz boosts are composed.