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Jake
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I'm trying to understand the mechanics of time dilation. Mabye some of the SR/GR Gurus can help me with this one :tongue2:
So an often used example that helps to visualize time dilation is a light click. A person moving in a vehicle WITH the light click just sees the light moving up and down, wheares someone in a rest frame relative to the vehicle sees the light moving up and down, AND forward, in a zigzag. Since light moves at a constant speed regardless of speed, the longer distance == more time thus time dilation.
But would that same example work for massive objects moving at less than C? Example, someone onboard the vehicle bounces a ball up and down, to him it just bonced up 3 feet, but to someone on land it moved 3 ft + the 10 feet the vehicle moved in that period of time. Thus, since in a given area of road, the ball moved different amounts to different frames of refrence, time was slow for the frame of refrence moving?
I'm not sure, let me know what you think :)
So an often used example that helps to visualize time dilation is a light click. A person moving in a vehicle WITH the light click just sees the light moving up and down, wheares someone in a rest frame relative to the vehicle sees the light moving up and down, AND forward, in a zigzag. Since light moves at a constant speed regardless of speed, the longer distance == more time thus time dilation.
But would that same example work for massive objects moving at less than C? Example, someone onboard the vehicle bounces a ball up and down, to him it just bonced up 3 feet, but to someone on land it moved 3 ft + the 10 feet the vehicle moved in that period of time. Thus, since in a given area of road, the ball moved different amounts to different frames of refrence, time was slow for the frame of refrence moving?
I'm not sure, let me know what you think :)