Recent content by bshul

So what I am hearing: 1). A moving emitter can effect the direction of the emitted photon. 2). The moving frame's velocity can add to the light's velocity.The light will then have a velocity in the emitted direction of c and a velocity in the right direction of the moving frame? but the...

Originally Posted by PatricPowers "My advice is to go with the spherical waveform. I doubt that a pulsed photon clock could be constructed in real life". Ok, so I'm getting some feeling that my original thought that the typical zigzag bouncing photon is not a good depiction and a circular...

I'm getting the feeling that my original thought, that the zigzaging photon is not a good depiction and the spherical (2D circular) photon depiction is better, may be acceptable. Thank you for your responses. Burt

Yes, that's one thing I am thinking. What actually happens in that case. If initialy aimed at the mirror. it always hits the displaced mirror or does it miss the displaced mirror? Also, what initially causes the photon to become angled to the mirror/emitter? i didn't think that moving the...

I thought laws of physics are preserved in every refernece frame and between reference frames...So angle of incidence does not equal angle of reflection? when both reference frames were traveling at the same speed the photon bounces perpendicular to perpendicular mirrors and when one reference...

Is the photon emitted on an angled path to the mirrors? By definition, I believe not. Then what causes the change to an angled path?

The depiction of time dilation that is typically used to describe the situation, shows the stationary photon clock, with mirrors one above the other in the observer's frame and the photon "bounces" back and forth between them. In the moving frame the mirror pair moves as a unit let's say to...