I have just seen this paper http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0203025v1. This is just for your information but I do not know yet if it has any relation to this post.
No I meant exactly as I wrote "space" not "spacetime". Of course for using LT we will need the "spaetime" but it is my intention here to show that (my)intuition does not find it incorrect to think of 3D section of the whole 4D. I accept that two frames will use different coordinates but Why do...
I completely agree as that is resulting from the postulate of special relativity. However, what do you think of the following picture:
1- O (I think it is obvious when O mean the event (0,0) or the observer in x=0, similarly for O' below) built F coordinates using rulers-clocks so whenever the...
That was my bad composition , I mean the following:
why can't we define absolute simultaneity using t in F and t' in F' so:
1- in F, event (t,x) is simultaneous with (t,y) for what ever x and y
2- in F', event (t',x') is simultaneous with (t',y') for what ever x' and y'?
Sorry, but for the first paragraph (and excuse me for this but I do not know how to quote in the appropriate way, one may help here) yes why can't we define absolute simultaneity using t in F and t' in F' so event (t,x) is simultaneous with (t,y) for what ever x and y.
So at 1 sec in F, all space (as represented by x coordinate) is filled with events (being empty for example except at 10^100 m). However, space as it is is a physical structre that exist irrespictive of any coordinate and at this moment in F, P is being registered in x=10^100 m. But this space...
As long as I know, all such videos ... etc will try to simplify LT and graph rather than giving an "intuitive" physical picture. Just keep attention that we are concentrating on understanding if there is a physical contradiction (if that can be said) in the statemen that "P before O before and...
Firstly, do you think that two events can be similtineuos with respect to a frame but not so with respect to a comoving observer in this frame? Does that make sense?
My intuition is not necessarily wrong, it could be the other way round, that is the theory is wrong (but certainly I am not putting any theory to the test of intuition). However, that is neither our aim here nor that there is any thing to make us believe so.
On the other hand, it is possible...
I do not think so. Yes science must be built on experiment and objective concepts but who said that intuition is completely subjective (as I said in my comment). I think it is better to have an intuitive picture (what ever that means) rather than less intuitive one.
Not really because you just used the essential structure behind the LT and graph to explain the same thing that equation and graph are doing (especially the definition of the simultaneity concept, they are all resulting from the same consistent structure of special relativity which I don not...
Yes every body may have a different viewpoint on the meaning of "physical intuition" and thus may find some statement physically intuitive and satisfying as you do with regard to our problem while others do not. This also explain why intuition is not a goal of a physical theory as it is more or...