Question

An event that lies outside of one of these constructs is spacelike relative to the event that defines it. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these constructs that are formed by the 45-degree lines emanating from an event on diagrams whose temporal axis is scaled by c.
ANSWER: light cones [accept null cones; prompt on cones]
[10e] Light cones help visualize causal relationships in this theory. A foundational postulate of this theory says that the laws of physics are the same in all inertial reference frames.
ANSWER: special relativity [or special theory of relativity; or SR; prompt on relativity]
[10h] One of these statements specifies that the spectrum of the four-momentum must lie within the closed future light cone. The Haag–Kastler framework and these statements both express the properties required to construct mathematically sound relativistic quantum field theories.
ANSWER: Wightman (“WHITE-mun”) axioms [or Gårding–Wightman axioms]

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Chicago AVanderbilt A10101030
Chicago BCornell A1010020
Cornell BNorthwestern A1010020
Duke AIllinois A1010020
Georgia Tech AChicago C1010020
Georgia Tech BBrown A1010020
Harvard AHouston A0000
MIT APenn State A1010020
Michigan AFlorida B1010020
Minnesota BClaremont A010010
North Carolina AVirginia A1010020
Penn AMaryland A1010020
Purdue AWUSTL A1010020
Rutgers AMinnesota A0000
Rutgers BMcGill A0000
Stanford ANYU A10101030
Texas AUC Berkeley B1010020
Toronto AColumbia B1010020
UC Berkeley AIowa State A010010
WUSTL BOhio State A1010020
Yale AColumbia A1010020
Yale BIndiana A1010020