Figure 8
A special case of the blended and the RBS coordinates, where . (a) A plot of the blended coordinates given in equations (7a) and (8). (b) RBS coordinates, given in equation (11b), transform (a) into a circle of radius , where the four hyperbola branches in (a) become four arc segments of the circle. Purple (black) hyperbola branches and arc segments represent directions from the origin where time-like (space-like) events occur for a fixed . Blended and RBS light lines are shown by yellow lines. See the Mathematica script in the Mathematica notebook in the supporting information to generate these plots. |