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amk0713
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Hello. I am trying to gain a more intuitive understanding of relativity, and hopefully someone may be able to help me.
Suppose there are two light clocks on two different spaceships - ship A and ship B. If the two ships are moving past one another with a constant velocity, then an observer on A would see their clock ticking "normally" while the clock on ship B would tick more slowly. However, wouldn't this also be the case for an observer traveling in ship B, in that he observes his own clock to tick normally while the other in ship A ticks more slowly? Who's time actually slows down?
Suppose there are two light clocks on two different spaceships - ship A and ship B. If the two ships are moving past one another with a constant velocity, then an observer on A would see their clock ticking "normally" while the clock on ship B would tick more slowly. However, wouldn't this also be the case for an observer traveling in ship B, in that he observes his own clock to tick normally while the other in ship A ticks more slowly? Who's time actually slows down?