Ok guys so I think I am starting to understand this a little better. Heres one quick question. Let's say the apple and the orange about are dropped and hit the ground simultaneously in one frame. Now let's freeze time. In one frame they are on the ground at the same time at the second they...
Sorry for all these questions! i really appreciate all the help, yet I am very confused and would like to understand more
Ok in this animation A and C are outside the light cones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Relativity_of_Simultaneity_Animation.gif.
How can it take place neither in the...
So I drop an apple and an orange at the same time. I see they land at the same moment. Observer 2 else sees me drop the apple first, the orange second. And observer 3 sees me drop the orange and the apple. The apple or the orange did not cause the other to drop. For observer 2 the dropped...
In a nutshell what confuses me is the future for one is the past for another. Past and future are relative. Doesn't the universe move forward in time or am i missing something?
Hey guys,
i am not a science guy by any means so any answer written for the layman would be much appreciated. i may not be understanding this right but here it goes:
In einstein's relativity of simultaneity we talk about how events A,B, and C are simultaneous for one observer (lets call him...