space-like

Adjective

Meaning

space-like

Alternative spelling of spacelike

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At a single "point" of configuration space, the wave function collects probabilistic information about several distinct particles, that respectively have physically space-like separation. Source: Internet

Synthesis In a scholarly article published in October 2009, NASA scientists reported having reproduced uracil from pyrimidine by exposing it to ultraviolet light under space-like conditions. Source: Internet

The comoving distance is the physical space-like distance between here and the distant location, asymptoting to the size of the observable universe at some 47 billion light years. Source: Internet

A time-like curve can be understood as one where the interval between any two infinitesimally close events on the curve is time-like, and likewise for light-like and space-like curves. Source: Internet

Events that have a space-like separation will be simultaneous in some frame of reference, and there is no frame of reference in which they do not have a spatial separation. Source: Internet

Like the proper time of time-like intervals, the proper distance of space-like spacetime intervals is a real number value. Source: Internet

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