Talk:Hyperbolic motion

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Contents 1 Weird and apparently rhetorical question 2 H^3, Fermat metric, and Rindler 3 Merger proposal 4 Simplification

[edit] Weird and apparently rhetorical question

Is Lobachevski the greatest mathematician who ever got chalk on his coat? Baylink 07:21, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] H^3, Fermat metric, and Rindler

The so-called Fermat metric for the Rindler chart is H^3. (Hyperbolic three-space.) Someone else who has read the wonderful little book Gravitional Curvature by Frenkel should fix this article to clarify all this stuff. I'd do it, but I have my hands full with other stuff.---CH (talk) 04:55, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merger proposal

See book cited in previous note for explanation of merger proposal.---CH (talk) 04:59, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

This page is mostly 2D geometry and not about relativity. Vote against merger.Rgdboer 21:03, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Simplification

I suggest adding info about the hyperbolic motion a spacecraft may undergo as it "slingshots" past the Sun, a planet, or moon. Such a spacecraft may also follow a parabolic path, depending on it's velocity and distance from the object. Since this would be the simplest definition of hyperbolic motion, I believe it should be placed first. Much of the info for this could be found under Planetary orbit.StuRat 19:01, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Another suggestion is to make this a disambiguation page, pointing to the existing hyperbolic motion (relativity), a new hyperbolic motion (hyperbolic geometry) which would contain the body of this article, and a new hyperbolic motion (orbits) which would contain what I mentioned above. StuRat 19:08, 24 September 2005 (UTC)