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:Title: Spacetime diagrams
:Author: J A Miller (millerja@uah.edu), 2020/02/06

Generate spacetime or two-observer diagrams. 

Parameters can be set by the user. The distance between neighboring grid lines is one.

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:Title: Attack from Andromeda
:Author: J A Miller (millerja@uah.edu), 2020/02/04

The Andromeda "paradox". Spacetime diagram for aliens launching an attack on Earth, according to three observers: one on the ground in the same frame as the aliens, and two walking past the first in opposite directions with the same speed.

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Install Package Control for easy package management.

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:Title: Tortoise and Hare - Variation III
:Author: 	    J A Miller, UAH Physics & Astronomy, millerja@uah.edu
                   2020/07/06

Spacetime diagram of a tortoise-hare race. The third variation.

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:Title: Supernova Rescue
:Author: J A Miller, UAH Physics & Astronomy, millerja@uah.edu
               2020/07/01

A starship rescue for a planet about to be hit by supernovae gamma rays

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:Title: Klingons and Enterprise II
:Author: 	    J A Miller, UAH Physics & Astronomy, millerja@uah.edu
                   2020/07/01

Spacetime diagram of an Enterprise - Klingon battle. The second of a few variations.

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:Title: Tortoise and Hare - Variation 2
:Author: 	    J A Miller, UAH Physics & Astronomy, millerja@uah.edu
                   2020/06/29

A race between a tortoise and hare. 

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:Title: Intercepting an accelerating starship
:Slug: Accelerating starship
:Tags:  special relativity
:Author: J A Miller, UAH Physics & Astronomy, millerja@uah.edu, 2020/06/29

Worldline of an accelerating ship in the frame ($\xi$ - $\eta$) of another accelerating ship.

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:Title: Rindler observers in a reference accelerated frame 
:Slug: Rindler observers
:Tags:  special relativity
:Author: J A Miller, UAH Physics & Astronomy, millerja@uah.edu, 2020/06/10

Worldlines of 9 accelerated observers in the accelerated coordinates $\xi$ and $\eta$ of a reference observer with proper acceleration of unity (in some inverse time units). These observers are called Rindler observers.

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:Title: Lorentz contraction of an accelerated rocket
:Slug: Lorentz contraction
:Tags:  special relativity
:Author: J A Miller, UAH Physics & Astronomy, millerja@uah.edu, 2020/05/28

Illustration of length contraction during acceleration.