Bilkusg, you might find this lecture by Steven Weinstein helpful:
I found this web page to be useful as well:
http://www.ipod.org.uk/reality/reality_decoherence.asp
I am not a physicist, but my understanding is that although decoherence gives us good tools for describing the...
Okay, I now think I can explain the flaw in Mayer's theory in a way that makes sense to me.
Let me know if this sounds right. Everyone's comments have helped a lot.
Mayer shows that in a ship accelerating that the light pulses have to travel further distances with each tick of the clock...
I think we are saying the same thing.
But here's the thing: Is the path of the "straight" line longer when it is traveling through curved space?
I think it is, but I just got an answer from another group that raises another question:
Another person pointed out that even if the curved...
I see the issues you are raising about the accelerated frames of reference.
It is complex.
But just to make this simpler, I don't think we even need to look at the accelerated frame. Let's just take a gravitational field, since that is equivalent and it makes it easier not having to worry...
Pervect, I follow your energy conservation argument. Mayer actually talks about this.
Mayer says that if his theory is true that all rotating bodies (because they are continously accelerating) will have a very slight loss of energy. The energy is conserved because the lost energy is radiated...
I have a question about this.
You say that the clocks are running at a slower rate. But travelers in the spaceship don't see that, right? If their clocks are running slower it would be in relation to some other observer, right?
If so, then would it really cancel out the red-shift that...