Fri 10 Feb, 2017 05:23 pm - [quote]I wondered if we could cease all motion of an atom would its relative time speed up.[/quote]
I think you are onto a substantial idea with this thought. Since there _is_ motion, there... (view)
Thu 9 Feb, 2017 02:46 pm - I've been searching and searching on this puzzle. And I ran across a graphic that seemed like it was going to straighten out my basic thinking. You can see it here:... (view)
Fri 3 Feb, 2017 02:45 pm - hi Dalehileman,
What I am starting to see (I think) is that I have been thinking of time as being a uni-directional concept. And it surely is, in a single inertial frame. But once you... (view)
Fri 3 Feb, 2017 08:11 am - I posted this to the other thread just now:
I think I may be starting to get just a glimmer of understanding on this question. My problem has been in a way of thinking that is too "caught... (view)
Fri 3 Feb, 2017 08:09 am - I think I may be starting to get just a glimmer of understanding on this question. My problem has been in a way of thinking that is too "caught up with" concepts of before and after,... (view)
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 05:24 pm - You know what? Lets consider that Betty goes all the way to the star, but doesn't stop. If she had stopped, then we do know that SR says she would be exactly 4 years younger than Alice.... (view)
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 04:42 pm - I don't know, to be honest. When I first read "Special Relativity" some years ago, I had a buddy that I went to lunch with who was interested and in talking to him about that text,... (view)
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 03:50 pm - oops...well, I apologize. What I was doing was taking you through Einstein's thinking that is published in his book "Special Relativity". I have a copy that is translated to... (view)
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 03:46 pm - The equation shown in the previous post was
x / 18 = 2 / x
Where the 18 is
10 + 8
Where the 10 is the 10 years that it takes for an object to move 8 LY at 80%c.
And 8 is the time it... (view)
