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Gyrations: The Missing Link Between Classical Mechanics with its Underlying Euclidean Geometry and Relativistic Mechanics with its Underlying Hyperbolic Geometry
Being neither commutative nor associative, Einstein velocity addition of
relativistically admissible velocities gives rise to gyrations. Gyrations, in
turn, measure the extent to which Einstein addition deviates from commutativity
and from associativity. Gyrations are geometric automorphisms abstracted from
the relativistic mechanical effect known as Thomas precession