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Einstein has a thought experiment with two trains which he uses to prove linear motion without acceleration is inertial. Inertial means there is no physical test which will prove which train is moving and which is stationary, no coordinate system is preferred and that coordinate system are relative.
Consider a space station which is similar to a spoke wheel with identical sleeping quarters around the rim. In each sleeping chamber there is a camera, a viewing screen and some very accurate physics experimental equipment. The space station is rotating around a hub which is not accelerating linearly. The hub rotation is not accelerating (increasing or decreasing the rotation rate).
The passengers in the sleeping quarters may communicate through the camera and view screen. The view screen will always show another chamber upright but the angle between the chambers is give at the bottom of the screen. The passengers may preform any experiment they wish. Regardless of the experiment chosen the results will be the same regardless which chamber the specific test is preformed in. There is no physical experiment which all the passengers can preform which will identify a specific chamber as the preferred coordinate system.
This indicates all of the chambers are inertial.
Based on this thought experiment I can make the following statement.
All objects with identical acceleration A are inertial with one another.
Special relativity was based on the premise that all coordinate systems which have zero acceleration are inertial which would agree with my definition of inertial systems.
General relatively is based on the premise that all coordinate systems are in a free fall condition following a straight line with zero acceleration. A curved motion is attributed to a property of curved space time. Because General Relativity defines all coordinate system to have zero acceleration General relativity also would agree with my definition of inertial systems.
Please correct any misunderstanding I have.
Thank you in advance.
Duordi
Consider a space station which is similar to a spoke wheel with identical sleeping quarters around the rim. In each sleeping chamber there is a camera, a viewing screen and some very accurate physics experimental equipment. The space station is rotating around a hub which is not accelerating linearly. The hub rotation is not accelerating (increasing or decreasing the rotation rate).
The passengers in the sleeping quarters may communicate through the camera and view screen. The view screen will always show another chamber upright but the angle between the chambers is give at the bottom of the screen. The passengers may preform any experiment they wish. Regardless of the experiment chosen the results will be the same regardless which chamber the specific test is preformed in. There is no physical experiment which all the passengers can preform which will identify a specific chamber as the preferred coordinate system.
This indicates all of the chambers are inertial.
Based on this thought experiment I can make the following statement.
All objects with identical acceleration A are inertial with one another.
Special relativity was based on the premise that all coordinate systems which have zero acceleration are inertial which would agree with my definition of inertial systems.
General relatively is based on the premise that all coordinate systems are in a free fall condition following a straight line with zero acceleration. A curved motion is attributed to a property of curved space time. Because General Relativity defines all coordinate system to have zero acceleration General relativity also would agree with my definition of inertial systems.
Please correct any misunderstanding I have.
Thank you in advance.
Duordi