Friday, 4 August 2017

spacetime - Equivalence of two definitions of proper time in special relativity


According to Wikipedia,



proper time along a timelike world line is defined as the time as measured by a clock following that line.



This makes sense to me, but my book defines proper time in the following way:



Proper time is the time between two events measured in a frame in which the events happen at the same position.



I don't quite understand why those two definitions would be equivalent.





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