Talk:Proper time

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I have corrected some spelling, and I have changed some headings. The wikipedia Manual of style recommends: Avoid links within headings. --Cleon Teunissen | Talk 14:57, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Path integral" vs. "line integral"

"Joke" - I decided to change "line integral" back to "path integral" primarily becuase your change left the article inconsistent both internally and with Wikipedia itself. Internally, there are several references to the path integral in this article, but you only changed one. Also, in Wikipedia, the title of the article is "path integral", not "line integral" (although it does acknowledge line integral as being synonomous with path integral).

If you feel strongly enough on this matter you may change the wording again. All that I ask is that this time you change all occurances of the term "path integral" instead of just one.

--EMS | Talk 17:53, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't notice that it was in multiple places in the article. It's not a big deal, it's just that physicists call functional integrals path integrals. --Joke137 21:06, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I am aware of Feynman diagrams but not of the intergration being called a "path integral" also. So I now see what my usage is jarring to you. As I wrote above, my big complaint is the loss of consistency instead of the change of terminology. I do not revert edits without a good reason to do so, and would not have reverted yours if the change had been done throughout the article. --EMS | Talk 22:11, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Minor typo in equation?

The last equation seems to be missing a 'dt' at the end; could someone who knows how to edit the equations fix it? Thanks! Fasrad 13:57, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for noticing it. --EMS | Talk 14:30, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Restructuring

I've rewritten the verbal definition in the introduction to stress how proper time differs from coordinate time. I've also brought the mathematical definition for SR ahead of the GR definition. Most readers of this article are likely to be learning SR and won't be familiar with GR, index notation, summation conventions and metric tensors.

I think a little further copy-editing may be required to make the whole article flow consistently. I plan to modify the article on coordinate time later.--Dr Greg 13:20, 12 December 2006 (UTC)