Analytic animations: space and time reversal
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Channel: Doug Sweetser · 2009 · Education
Compare space to time animation on the same screen. Space reversal involves a mirror to make a mirage. Time reversal forces one to remember what happened exactly so it can be reversed. In a complex plane, time is the real number, space is imaginary. They are at 90 degrees. Flipping over the real axis looks exactly like flipping over the imaginary. When animated, the difference between real and imaginary numbers is distinct.
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