Then, relative to the laboratory, the velocity of a sound ray propagating, with respect to the fluid, along the
direction defined by the unit vector , is
Solving this quadratic equation for as a function of
provides a double cone associated
with each point in space and time. This is associated with a conformal class of Lorentzian
metrics [607
, 622
, 626
, 624
, 470
]
The virtues of the geometric approach are its extreme simplicity and the fact that the basic structure is dimension-independent. Moreover, this logic rapidly (and relatively easily) generalises to more complicated physical situations.3
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