General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists · Problem 5.4

Special relativity revisited — Hobson, Efstathiou & Lasenby

Physics · spacelike-timelike-null-vectors

Problem

Prove (a) that the sum of any two spacelike vectors is spacelike; and (b) that a timelike vector and a null vector cannot be orthogonal.

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