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: It's definitely not in the top ten all-time funniest ever, but there are probably more than a few academic physicists it got a grin out of. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.210.233|172.70.210.233]] 03:38, 16 July 2022 (UTC) | : It's definitely not in the top ten all-time funniest ever, but there are probably more than a few academic physicists it got a grin out of. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.210.233|172.70.210.233]] 03:38, 16 July 2022 (UTC) | ||
:: It's been a long time since I had any sort of dealing with Minkowski diagrams, but it definitely got me chuckling... I suppose you just have to appreciate Randall's particular slant. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.10|172.70.86.10]] 04:45, 16 July 2022 (UTC) | :: It's been a long time since I had any sort of dealing with Minkowski diagrams, but it definitely got me chuckling... I suppose you just have to appreciate Randall's particular slant. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.10|172.70.86.10]] 04:45, 16 July 2022 (UTC) | ||
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I don't think checking in to Hilbert's Hotel provides any comfort at all. After all you are required to pack up your belongings and move to a new room a possibly infinite number of times, thus leaving you no chance to get any sleep. [[User:MAP|MAP]] ([[User talk:MAP|talk]]) 05:46, 16 July 2022 (UTC) | I don't think checking in to Hilbert's Hotel provides any comfort at all. After all you are required to pack up your belongings and move to a new room a possibly infinite number of times, thus leaving you no chance to get any sleep. [[User:MAP|MAP]] ([[User talk:MAP|talk]]) 05:46, 16 July 2022 (UTC) | ||
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I disagree with the explanation! We are not living in the Minkowski space but in the Minkowski spacetime. This little detail lead into misunderstanding of the joke. In Minkowski space there is one cordinate with different signature to others. We use this in relativistic physics for the time coordinate to explain many phenomenons in relativistic physics. But in this comics we swap into Minkowski SPACE. It is even more obvious from pictures that strange deferomation happens when we are closer to the diagonal direction. We know this deformation on the spacetime diagram but this one displays whole ship in its spece-like character. So it is not trivial to do such a jump into Minkowski space and it changes the situation! On top of that the distance is usually invariant and indepenedent on reference frame for the given geometry. So the last frame may be a bit strange becouse it looks like a false statement. But it makes sense if you think about it. If we think about "reference frame" in common comics language the reference frame in comics language basically means mention of different frames we picture. And we changed the goemetry between frames. So the geometry itself may cause that distance is independend on reference frame but the fact that we changed the geometry between frames causes that the distance of both ships may depend on such a thing as reference frame. The joke is ingenious! But for completely different reasons that are presented in here.[[User:MBas|MBas]] ([[User talk:MBas|talk]]) 10:29, 20 July 2022 (UTC) | I disagree with the explanation! We are not living in the Minkowski space but in the Minkowski spacetime. This little detail lead into misunderstanding of the joke. In Minkowski space there is one cordinate with different signature to others. We use this in relativistic physics for the time coordinate to explain many phenomenons in relativistic physics. But in this comics we swap into Minkowski SPACE. It is even more obvious from pictures that strange deferomation happens when we are closer to the diagonal direction. We know this deformation on the spacetime diagram but this one displays whole ship in its spece-like character. So it is not trivial to do such a jump into Minkowski space and it changes the situation! On top of that the distance is usually invariant and indepenedent on reference frame for the given geometry. So the last frame may be a bit strange becouse it looks like a false statement. But it makes sense if you think about it. If we think about "reference frame" in common comics language the reference frame in comics language basically means mention of different frames we picture. And we changed the goemetry between frames. So the geometry itself may cause that distance is independend on reference frame but the fact that we changed the geometry between frames causes that the distance of both ships may depend on such a thing as reference frame. The joke is ingenious! But for completely different reasons that are presented in here.[[User:MBas|MBas]] ([[User talk:MBas|talk]]) 10:29, 20 July 2022 (UTC) | ||
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