This is all making a whole lot more sense! Thank you all.
I am mulling over individual bits of info, one piece at a time. So I will start with the time loaf.
I think I am saying the same thing as you JesseM but perhaps a little less eloquently. To illustrate how I mentally envisage the...
Hello JesseM
Thank you so much for answering these questions… I hope I am not wasting too much of your time.
Following your replies I spent most of last night thinking about the implications and at 1am, having thought I understood it all, I got a little confused! My girlfriend is...
Thank you for your reply... it makes complete sense. Thinking about my spaceman I can see that the direction of his relative velocity is irrelevant.
MeJennifer: Thank you for your response. If I understand, then what you are saying is that if two objects are spatially isolated and there is...
Thank you for your VERY speedy reply!
So, to clarify, if each spaceman had an event started simultaneously in their worlds and if they could immediately communicate with the other upon the events conclusion (disregarding every law of conventional phsyics) they would both believe that they...
Hello all. I wonder if you could help explain something to me. No matter how much I read I am not sure if my understanding of special relativity is correct. My confusion is with respect to a light clock constructed as one mirror above the other and a photon reflecting between the two mirrors...