None experiment would be invalidated, the physics laws will still remain the same. Maybe some theories explaining them would change :biggrin:.
The speed of light creates no controversy. Time dilatation does, see f. eg. https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=582233
There is one catch in the GPS time dilatation. The GPS clocks apply 38.6μs of time correction in the satellites clocks per day because of GR and SR time dilatation. The catch is that the correction is constant for all satellites, which move in different directions relative to Earth rotation...
Good question, because Einstein does not mention it in his paper http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/ when he arrives at the transformation of coordinates.
Cleopatra will see the beam to travel at c, Anthony will also see the beam to travel at c. When Anthony looks at his clock he sees 1s has elapsed he looks at his measuring rod and sees that the beam has reached 300000 km. But when he looks at Cleopatra's clock he will see 1/γ s and when he looks...
Which conclusions are sloppy and incorrect (and why)?
Ok, then don't jump, but you can change your speed and/or direction in your original reference frame to a speed that just happens to be the same as of an another third reference frame.
When the traveling twin turns does he take the...
No as long the conditions that the inventor of the Lorentz equations put on his equations are met. See also here https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3799533&postcount=18
Of course the lag cannot suddenly disappear immediately when the traveling twin stops, but the Lorentz equation...
This is against logic. According to you if B travels first and then A goes that same distance with the same speed as B to meet him then A will be younger.
And what if they decide to travel both in one spaceship the same distance and speed? Logically they will be of the same age, but with the...
I mean that if there are two reference frames A and B in relative movement to each other, then A is thinking that he is stationary and B is moving, but B is thinking the opposite, that he stationary and A is moving, since there is no preferred stationary reference frame.
So each one of them...
I am not assuming that one of the twins is stationary, but that one is moving with a different speed than the other. But this situation is symmetric, when A is moving away from B, then also B is moving away from A. Both can make the calculation of their ages and A comes to the conclusion that B...
Till now I understand, the outcome was that light travels in both direction with the same speed, but Michelson made the calculation for the case there was a fixed ether.
But I don't understand the connection between this experiment and the time dilatation.
The Lorentz transformation...
Michelson made a mistake in his calculations, he assumed the phase shift was only proportional to the time the wave needs to travel the distance L. But in reality phase shift is proportional to the distance from the source (how many wavelengths fit in that distance)
It is proportional to the...
No, I am not assuming different time or length. I am assuming that the light is behaving as the Maxwell equations describe, that is the speed of light is the same in all directions and equal c. This is in accordance with Maxwell equation because none of them is dependent on direction.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimento_de_Michelson_y_Morley (I put the spanish version which contains calculations).
The MMX uses interference as its principle so it measures phase difference between the two arms. They thought that the movement of Earth along the ether should produce a...