Born rigidity

noun

Born rigidity

noun

Etymology The concept was introduced by Max Born in 1909.

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A concept in special relativity that corresponds to the rigid body of nonrelativistic classical mechanics. It is satisfied if the orthogonal spacetime distance between infinitesimally separated curves or world lines is constant.

Quantum mechanics

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