Gotcha, and I understand that to be possible due to time dilation? Where my perception while moving at near the speed of light is slowed so greatly that to me a particle moving at a very slow velocity relative to me would in fact appear to be moving quite fast. So while to the person on the...
Yeah I suppose the answer then is infinity. What I mean by that is what I'm starting to understand is that you are always moving at near the speed of light relative to someone. And that someone is moving at near the speed of light relative to someone else and you can push that speed slider all...
I briefly noted those names and the term "aether" as i was looking up the idea of absolute velocity. I will have to do some more reading to get a grip on how the possibility of an absolute grid of space was disproved. It still just seems counter intuitive that nothingness would have a velocity...
Yeah I guess what I meant by shifting in both directions for a net zero is that, at least in the case of sound, if both the emitter and detector are moving at the same velocity,then it would be like an ambulance chasing a car at the same velocity. Even though each sound wave is produced further...
Okay, yeah I'm with you. Basically it was a fundamental misunderstanding of what causes the doppler shift. As I think you were trying to point out, the two bodies must have a non zero change in distance over time in order for there to be a shift, as it is the change in distance between each...
Yeah I guess I was talking about velocity relative to space. So to clarify, you are stating that the theory of relativity does not allow for any possibility of any entities or even space it's self to be moving at a true and absolute 0 velocity? If nothing can have 0 velocity then how is it that...
Okay, I think I am starting to wrap my head around what you are saying. So relative to both the emitter and the receivers frames of reference the distance between them that the light travels is the same regardless of the fact that they may actually be moving at a high velocity and the point at...
"How do you know the detectors are absolutely stationary?" They wouldn't be. They would be moving at the same velocity as the emitter. But time would have passed between when the light was emitted and when it was received, so the true distance covered would be greater for some of the receivers...
Would it be possible to stand at a point, surrounded by sensors and fire beam of light of at specific frequency at every sensor and determine our absolute velocity without a reference based on the amount of red/blue shift detected in the frequency of each beam?
Wouldn't light observed by the...