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I am a novice about relativity, but I found this convoluted and very difficult to follow. I think the lengths in the different coordinate systems of the geometric analogue is just a matter of linear scaling with different base vectors. The lengths are identical in each frame when accounting for the scaling. As I understand it, the lengths and time intervals for special relativity are different, not as a result of arbitrary scaling but as a result of relative motion between of the inertial frames and the transformations are nonlinear.
I am a novice about relativity, but I found this convoluted and very difficult to follow. I think the lengths in the different coordinate systems of the geometric analogue is just a matter of linear scaling with different base vectors. The lengths are identical in each frame when accounting for the scaling. As I understand it, the lengths and time intervals for special relativity are different, not as a result of arbitrary scaling but as a result of relative motion between of the inertial frames and the transformations are nonlinear.
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