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  2. Proper time - Wikipedia

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    The proper time interval between two events on a world line is the change in proper time, which is independent of coordinates, and is a Lorentz scalar. [1] The interval is the quantity of interest, since proper time itself is fixed only up to an arbitrary additive constant, namely the setting of the clock at some event along the world line.

  3. Experimental testing of time dilation - Wikipedia

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    Time: The interval between two events present on the worldline of a single clock is called proper time, an important invariant of special relativity. As the origin of the muon at A and the encounter with Earth at D is on the muon's worldline, only a clock comoving with the muon and thus resting in S′ can indicate the proper time T′ 0 =AD.

  4. Time-invariant system - Wikipedia

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    The system is time-invariant if and only if y 2 (t) = y 1 (t – t 0) for all time t, for all real constant t 0 and for all input x 1 (t). [1] [2] [3] Click image to expand it. In control theory, a time-invariant (TI) system has a time-dependent system function that is not a direct function of time.

  5. Twin paradox - Wikipedia

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    This is a different voyage than the one shown above, as both schemes take the same assumed total point-of-view time: T=12 (stay-at-home), resp τ=12 (ship), so the results of the calculated other-one's times must be different: τ=9.33 (ship), resp T=17.3 (stay at home). In the standard proper time formula

  6. Galilean invariance - Wikipedia

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    All inertial frames share a universal time. Galilean relativity can be shown as follows. Consider two inertial frames S and S' . A physical event in S will have position coordinates r = (x, y, z) and time t in S, and r' = (x' , y' , z' ) and time t' in S' . By the second axiom above, one can synchronize the clock in the two frames and assume t ...

  7. Time-variant system - Wikipedia

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    An example of this is the aging and wear of electronic components, which happens on a scale of years, and thus does not result in any behaviour qualitatively different from that observed in a time invariant system: day-to-day, they are effectively time invariant, though year to year, the parameters may change.

  8. Relativity of simultaneity - Wikipedia

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    This is illustrated in the figure at right, which shows radar time/position isocontours for events in flat spacetime as experienced by a traveler (red trajectory) taking a constant proper-acceleration roundtrip. One caveat of this approach is that the time and place of remote events are not fully defined until light from such an event is able ...

  9. Formulations of special relativity - Wikipedia

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    They develop one such version called common relativity which is more convenient for performing calculations for "relativistic many body problems" than using special relativity. Several authors have made the case that Taiji relativity still assumes a further postulate – the cosmological principle that time and space look the same in all ...