Talk:Born coordinates

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[edit] Work in progress

I had to interrupt my work on this but I hope to finish first version in 24 hours. I plan to add a discussion comparing radar distance in the small (the standard metric on the quotient space of Minkowski by the Langevin congruence; see Landau & Lifschitz Classical Field Theories) with radar distance in the large, compare with Märzke-Wheeler coordinates, and add some citations to some recent sources and some classic sources (since the literature is huge, I plan to focus on citing cite review papers which offer many further citations, rather than trying to enumerate all papers in this area).

I also plan to use this article to revise Ehrenfest paradox, similarly to how I used Rindler coordinates to support Bell's spaceship paradox.---CH 07:54, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

OK, I just declared the first version basically done and removed the inuse flag. ---CH 01:12, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

I added two new figures, completed the discussion of the appearance of null geodesics in the Born chart, and added a new summary section. ---CH 04:20, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Students beware

I created the original version of this article and had been monitoring it for bad edits, but I am leaving the WP and am now abandoning this article to its fate.

Just wanted to provide notice that I am only responsible (in part) for the last version I edited; see User:Hillman/Archive.

I emphatically do not vouch for anything you might see in more recent versions.

Good luck in your seach for information, regardless!---CH 22:46, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] focus

I would put the contents of the Summary section in the leading section, so people not interested in the details (or not able to understand them) can get an impression of the importance of the subject.

I would also add, if I kew about it, notes about the importance of the conclusions extracted in the summary section (since very few users have a grasp on relativity). --euyyn 21:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC)