Etymology

Born rigidity

Today it means: A concept in special relativity that corresponds to the rigid body of nonrelativistic classical mechanics. It is satisfied if the orthogonal spacetime distance between infinitesimally separated curves or world lines is constant. Full definition →

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The story

The concept was introduced by Max Born in 1909.

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