Crossword clues for timelike
timelike
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context mathematics physics English) Of a four-vector in representing a point in spacetime, having a positive four-vector norm. 2 (context physics English) (''of the interval between two events in spacetime'') Having overlapping light cones, so that information can pass from one to the other, and one can be envisaged as a cause of the other. alt. 1 (context mathematics physics English) Of a four-vector in representing a point in spacetime, having a positive four-vector norm. 2 (context physics English) (''of the interval between two events in spacetime'') Having overlapping light cones, so that information can pass from one to the other, and one can be envisaged as a cause of the other.
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "timelike".
And it was the duality of universes, each exhibiting a spacetime decomposed into two discrete dimensions, which gave rise to the two-way duality manifested by tweedles and antitweedles: Dums, dees, antidums, and antidees were simply spacelike, timelike, antispacelike, and antitimelike projections of the same fundamental entity existing in the timeless, spaceless domain of tweedlespace.
He had maintained a Virtual image of the stationary portal in his quarters throughout that time, listening to endless, baffling commentaries about relativistic time dilation, closed timelike curves, and Cauchy horizons.
The melting of the Higgs field produced closed timelike curves, CTC's, between universes.
If, however, the interval is timelike the events cannot be simultaneous in any co-ordinate system, but there exists a co-ordinate system in which the space terms will vanish entirely, so that the separation between events will be purely temporal, id est, occurring at the same place, but at different times.
If, however, the interval is timelike, the events cannot be simultaneous in any co-ordinate system, but there exists a co-ordinate system in which the space terms will vanish entirely, so that the separation between events will be purely temporal, id est, occurring at the same place, but at different times.
The New Republican Navy might think a closed timelike loop to be only a petty tactical maneuver, but it was the thin end of a wedge.