%0 Journal Article
%T Special Relativity Derived from Spacetime Magma
%A Fred Greensite
%J PLOS ONE
%D 2014
%I Public Library of Science (PLoS)
%R 10.1371/journal.pone.0100583
%X We present a derivation of relativistic spacetime largely untethered from specific physical considerations, in constrast to the many physically-based derivations that have appeared in the last few decades. The argument proceeds from the inherent magma (groupoid) existing on the union of spacetime frame components and Euclidean which is consistent with an ”°inversion symmetry”± constraint from which the Minkowski norm results. In this context, the latter is also characterized as one member of a class of ”°inverse norms”± which play major roles with respect to various unital -algebras more generally.
%U http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0100583