I greatly enjoyed "Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality" by Manjit Kumar. Two of the greatest minds of the 20th century couldn't agree on an answer to your question. But the book (and it's not the only one) is more about philosophy with a great deal of...
Sorry, in 10 min can't come up with a study. My recollection is that when the same study presented for peer review is authored by someone known in the field (especially more insular highly specialized areas where there are 'insiders') it is substantially more likely to be accepted than when...
Merely an aside (as I agree with your post), but reputation and academic standing, some might say politics, have been shown to affect likelihood of acceptance in peer-reviewed journals. It is a problem, but given the previously mentioned signal to noise ratio, I'm not sure a better solution...
Re: 1st point- Trust me I understand. And it's obvious many such as yourself devote a good deal of time to PF to promote interest in and understanding of physics. I have noted posts where, even to me, the OP seems , almost willfully, to not understand.
Re- Second- Absolutely. The overwhelming...
Peter's post, and Dale's response, are reasonable and on the money. A couple of other issues come to mind, though.
A hobbyist only, I've been curious about STR for a while. Though rusty with calculus and linear algebra, I dug a little deeper than the strictly lay descriptions and have found...
I think you're mistaken.
The temp will always be at some intermediate value at homeostasis. This is not evaporative cooling. A state change will extract heat/energy without a change in temp but that heat can only move to a substance of lower temperature.
The correct answer to the question is...
What you describe in your original post pertains to vectors in a Gallilean system, i.e. no Lorentz factor for time dilation.
If I sit at a table with a glass on my left and a pitcher on my right, which is in front and which behind? An inertial reference frame, explicit or implicit, is necessary...
I appreciate the replies and see I've stirred up discussion of some related issues.
I actually have serious doubts about the notion in my original post, but haven't found time to examine it more closely.
Where I started was looking for a resolution to the twin paradox. Many explanations have...
I feel you are simply dismissive of this notion out of hand. What becomes false?The origin and the destination are at rest with respect to each other. Neither is at rest with respect to the traveler.
Of other arguments for asymmetry, I am unconvinced.
For reasons in my original post, I am not...
Dale and Orodruin are of course correct.
So - ... when two bodies are at rest in different inertial frames of reference...
Perhaps I should re-phrase in terms of bodies at rest relatively as opposed to not.
Your concern with my phrasing, which should be more precise, doesn't pose a substantive...
Very easy to work around. The traveling twin carries a stopwatch. At any point it can be carried back to the origin of the trip. Meanwhile an EM signal sent to the origin can be used to indicate the time of arrival, calculated by c and the known distance.
Were a third observer present, in...
Thinking and reading about the twin paradox recently, I encounter a lot of explanations and resolutions that don't make sense to me.
At its most basic, the issue is- when two bodies are in different frames of reference, why shouldn't relativistic effects affect both equally, negating time...