单词 | world line |
释义 | > as lemmasworld line world line n. [after German Weltlinie (H. Minkowski 1909, in Physikalische Zeitschr. 10 104)] Physics a line in space-time comprising the successive points occupied by a particle, celestial object, etc., throughout its history; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > theoretical scientific philosophy > [noun] > spatialism > elements of world line1914 world point1914 the world > matter > physics > relativity > space-time > [noun] > point in > succession occupied by particle world line1914 1914 Science 20 Nov. 725/1 Every point in space, even if at rest, describes a world line, which may be referred to and is contained between the two extremities of the time axis. 1962 Listener 27 Dec. 1095/3 Objects which appear to be responding to the pull of gravity..are simply following the shortest available world-line through the space-time continuum. 1992 K. S. Robinson Red Mars (1993) ii. 50 In human affairs, individual world lines form a thick tangle, curling out of the darkness of prehistory and stretching through time. 2003 M. Roos Introd. Cosmol. (ed. 3) ii. 28 A body at a fixed location in space follows a world line parallel to the time axis and, of course, in the direction of increasing time. < as lemmas |
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