timelike
adjEtymology From time + -like.
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Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics, Sciences Of a four-vector in representing a point in spacetime, having a positive or negative four-vector norm for the metric signature (+, -, -, -) and (-, +, +, +) respectively.
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics (of the interval between two events in spacetime) Having overlapping light cones, so that information can pass from one to the other, and one can be envisaged as a cause of the other.
- Derived terms
- closed timelike curve, future directed timelike vector, past directed timelike vector, timelike component, timelike congruence, timelikeness, timelike path, timelike vector field