Rindler Coordinates

Rindler Coordinates

In relativistic physics, the Rindler coordinate chart is an important and useful coordinate chart representing part of flat spacetime, also called the Minkowski vacuum. The Rindler chart was introduced by Wolfgang Rindler. The Rindler coordinate system or frame describes a uniformly accelerating frame of reference in Minkowski space. In special relativity, a uniformly accelerating particle undergoes hyperbolic motion. For each such particle a Rindler frame can be chosen in which it is at rest.

Read more about Rindler Coordinates:  Relation To Cartesian Chart, The Rindler Observers, A "paradoxical" Property, Minkowski Observers, The Rindler Horizon, Geodesics, The Fermat Metric, Symmetries, Notions of Distance, Generalization To Curved Spacetimes