What I don't get is why this would effect the time it took the light particles to get their in comparison to each other. Wouldn't length contraction happen only in the direction of acceleration? And wouldn't this cause the particles to still tick at the same time? Isn't this why length...
One more thing though, doesn't an interference pattern have to do with wavelength? And why would acceleration effect the speed of light? I was under the impression that as we speed up length contracts and time dilates in the direction we are accelerating into compensate for that effect.
Well thanks, non inertial reference frames. This wasn't something I had heard of before. I am not sure if I mentioned it or not, but I am not in a physics class nor have I taken all the math, so there is a lot of stuff I am missing. This was one of them. Maybe this will answer my question maybe...
What I meant was that it was a problem with the theory itself, I know of lorentz transformation, when I look at Special Relativity I see it as a collective work, not completely attributable to Einstein. As I see it as a complete package.
I know the frames are And why would the frames not be at...
I am well aware that curved space changes the path of light. Light follows straight lines in curved space. That isn't what I am asking. See the diagram, in the AB light clock I showed the path of light being bent.
The question here is doesn't this cause inconsistencies with time dilation...
So I am new to relativity, and without all the proper math analyzing the equation isn't easy. So I am stuck at this current point until I learn more math, for the most part trying to gain an understanding of how it works, through thought experiments and visualizations.
That being said I have...