tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 09 20:36:53 1998
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Re: {'evnagh} (was Re: KLBC: logh veQ)
mujang charghwI':
>> I suppose I would understand it if someone wanted to discuss Special
>> Relativity and used {'evnagh} to mean "space-time", but since we lack
>> a good vocabulary base for mathematical concepts, I don't think that
>> discussion would be very productive.
>
>logh-poH 'oH vIHtaHghach'e' 'e' vIHar. vIHbogh pat 'oH
>logh-poH'e'.
[I don't like using {poH} to mean "time" in general, the way we use
{logh} to refer to "space".]
pe'vIl jIQoch. bImujbej. Quv Del "space-time". vIHlu' 'e' Delbe'.
wanI' ngu' "space-time" Quv. bejwI'vaD Daq rep je Del. vIHtaHchugh
bejwI' cha'DIch, Quv pIm juv ghaH, 'ach "space-time" Quv'e' juvbej.
"space-time" qellu'taHvIS, potlhbe' vIHtaHghach. potlh Quv.
vIH vay' net DelchoHDI', "space" "time" je luchevlu'pu'.
Motion is not the important attribute of space-time. Location in
both space (physical coordinates) and time (what a clock reads) is
what space-time is all about. As soon as you start talking about
motion, you have separated space and time.
And I guess I was wrong about this discussion's productivity. :-)
-- ghunchu'wI'