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I am proposing a piece of equipment a bit similar to Crooke's radiometer with the aim of using kinetic motion of air particles to rotate the mill, without need for an external source of EM radiation. Instead of flat vanes as in Crooke's radiometer, I propose 3-dimensional vanes in the shape of...

Thank you! Your answer is explained really well and makes complete sense to me. I've only read about relativity in popular science media but maybe I should pick up a textbook and study the details.

This is a thought experiment I came up with this evening. It must surely have been considered before but I couldn't find any reference and I've come up with it independently. NASA has positioned a clock in Earth's thermosphere that can be viewed from outer space with a powerful enough telescope...