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Science - Mathematics & Statistics / Physics formulae | | Spanish term or phrase: quien realiza la contracción | This phrase is part of a longer text providing/explaining various formulae relating to the theory of relativity.
I can't make out what the 'quien' refers to. The complete phrase is follows:
La presente conclusión es la presentación a la comunidad académica de la nueva contracción matemática, que es quien realiza la contracción al cuadrimomento y a la cuadri-energía, el mismo papel que hace la contracción de Lorentz en la respectiva cuadrivelocidad y cuadrimasa, identificada como “Cuadri-contracción de Cuadri-Lorentz” o sencillamente Cuadri-Lorentz.
Sorry for lack of context but basically this is how the phrases are being presented to me (followed by a formula). |
|  Claire CullifordKudoZ activityQuestions: 65 (none open) ( 10 closed without grading) Answers: 23
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| | LA QUE realiza la contracción | Explanation:
The original Spanish is poorly written. The usage of "quien" here is wrong, as the sentence clearly refers to the "contracción", not to a person. A correct wording would se "...de la nueva contracción matemática, que es LA QUE realiza la contracción al cuadrimomento...".
Hope this helps.
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Manuel Baselga López
Local time: 05:03
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27 mins confidence:  peer agreement (net): +1 LA QUE realiza la contracción
Explanation:
The original Spanish is poorly written. The usage of "quien" here is wrong, as the sentence clearly refers to the "contracción", not to a person. A correct wording would se "...de la nueva contracción matemática, que es LA QUE realiza la contracción al cuadrimomento...".
Hope this helps.
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Asker: Thanks so much Manuel. I did suspect that there wasn't a person involved and that it wasn't the 'comunidad académica' who does the 'realiza'! Nice to know it's just another case of a not ideally written text.
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