Articles for: time dilation

Does the Block Universe of Physics Mean Time is an Illusion?
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I have written many Insights (and coauthored an entire book) explaining how the puzzles, problems, and paradoxes of modern physics can be attributed to…

Relativity Variables: Velocity, Doppler-Bondi k, and Rapidity
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Traditional presentations of special relativity place emphasis on "velocity", which of course has an important physical interpretation... carried over…

Learn About Relativity on Rotated Graph Paper
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This Insight is a follow-up to my earlier tutorial Insight (Spacetime Diagrams of Light Clocks).
I gave it a different name because I am placing more…

Learn About Spacetime Diagrams of Light Clocks
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We demonstrate a method for constructing spacetime diagrams for special relativity on graph paper that has been rotated by 45 degrees. Many quantitative…

Learn Time Dilation and Redshift for a Static Black Hole
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The following is an overview of the time dilation and gravitational redshift effects of a static (Schwarzschild) black hole. In accordance with general…

Learn About Neutrino Masses and Speed
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It was hard to miss the 2011 OPERA neutrino speed measurement that indicated superluminal neutrino speeds (and turned out to be a measurement error), but…