Special relativity in complex vector algebra
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Special relativity is one of the monumental achievements of physics of the 20th Century. Whereas Einstein used a coordinate based approach [1], which obscures important geometric aspects of this fundamental theory, many coordinate free geometric languages have since been developed. In [2], D. Hestenes showed how the ideas of special relativity can be elegantly expressed in space-time algebra. The purpose of this paper is to examine the fundamental ideas of special relativity in a complex vector-based language that is the natural generalization of the Gibbs-Heaviside vector algebra of 3-dimensional space [3].
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