Today I spent the day reading about the Lorentz generators. Just like spatial rotations, one can find generators that describe boosts. These have the same form as rotations, with the "angle" being the rapidity and instead of having trigonometric functions one has hyperbolic ones.
Basically I just went through some of the steps that Srednicki skips in deriving the commutation relations for the Lorentz generators. I have been slow, if I want to cover a lot of material during the summer I must move faster through the book. At least I am able to reproduce the calculations, which makes me feel not so stupid.
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