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Timelike vs Tidelike - What's the difference?

timelike | tidelike |

As adjectives the difference between timelike and tidelike

is that timelike is of a four-vector in representing a point in spacetime, having a positive four-vector norm while tidelike is resembling the periodic tides of the sea.

timelike

English

Alternative forms

* time-like

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (mathematics, physics) Of a four-vector in representing a point in spacetime, having a positive four-vector norm.
  • (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

    * timelike component * timelike congruence * timelike path * future directed timelike vector * past directed timelike vector * timelikeness * timelike vector field

    See also

    * lightlike * spacelike

    tidelike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling the periodic tides of the sea.