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Hyperbolic rotation

Hyperbolic rotation is like when you spin really fast and everything around you looks like it's moving in a weird way. Imagine you are sitting on a spinning chair and you start spinning around really fast. As you spin, you notice that the things in the room seem to shift and distort.

Now, imagine you are in space and you are moving through a curved surface, kind of like a roller coaster track. This surface is called hyperbolic space, and it's different from the flat space we are used to. If you were to move straight through this hyperbolic space, you would actually be moving along a curve.

But what if you wanted to rotate around a point in this hyperbolic space? That's where hyperbolic rotation comes in. It's like spinning around a point on this curved surface, but instead of just moving in a circular way, you have to move in a special way that takes into account the curvature of the surface.

Hyperbolic rotation is important in many areas of math and science, like in physics and geometry. It sounds really complicated, but it's basically just like spinning around in a really cool way on a roller coaster track in space!
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