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hey..while looking into the consequences of the invariance of light...we see that time needs to be slowed down in order to incorporate it in all the appropriate condtns..normally every body( in most of the books) gives an example...if we are in a space ship(moving horizontally with a speed of v) and we are having a pair of mirrors(perpendicularly opposite, and kept vertical with reference to ship)..then the time taken by the light to emanate from one mirror and come back after reflection is lesser than the time noted by the stationery observer(located outside the ship) who is seeing the oblique path of light inside the ship from outside...all this is fine..even the maths is fine..and we get the desired result..but the key thing to which we attribute everything here is that..since we are dealing with light(EM wave), it has to be the same velocity no matter what the frame of reference is...now..
the question is ...if i replace the two mirrors with a sound making radiator and keep a signal reflector just exactly the mirrors were, i see the same effect again...that is the time dilation between the two observers...
though this experiment is exhibited to us to show that invariance of EM wave velocity leads to lapse of time..but it is working for non EM waves too...
i know that this exp can't be wrong..there is some flaw in my understanding...so please helpi hope u got the question rightly...
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the question is ...if i replace the two mirrors with a sound making radiator and keep a signal reflector just exactly the mirrors were, i see the same effect again...that is the time dilation between the two observers...
though this experiment is exhibited to us to show that invariance of EM wave velocity leads to lapse of time..but it is working for non EM waves too...
i know that this exp can't be wrong..there is some flaw in my understanding...so please helpi hope u got the question rightly...
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