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mjacobsca
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One of the scenarios that I've come across while reading about special relativity is the scenario of a person riding on a train undergoing constant velocity motion, such that the person in a train car with all windows drawn is unaware that their train car is moving at all. The car is not accelerating, there are no bumps in the road. The suggestion is that the person in the car cannot perform any experiment that allows them to determine whether they are undergoing motion or not.
My question is whether this is a thought experiment, or whether it holds true in reality? If a person could measure sub-atomic particles like neutrinos, wouldn't they be able to conduct an experiment that determines their motion? Some particles travel through the train compartment's walls. So we should be able to determine motion relative to those, right?
Mike
My question is whether this is a thought experiment, or whether it holds true in reality? If a person could measure sub-atomic particles like neutrinos, wouldn't they be able to conduct an experiment that determines their motion? Some particles travel through the train compartment's walls. So we should be able to determine motion relative to those, right?
Mike