By pure luck I happen to have a library book that can explain this question in the words of Albert Einstein himself!
The book is " Relativity". It is written by Albert Einstein. Usually there is a note in a book about what edition it is but I cannot find it. All I can find is "first Plume...
Wow. You have said my words exactly, if I could have ever thought of a good way to say my own questions about this. I love Relativity so much, but sometimes when I try to imagine it, the words people say about it just don't help me see it in my mind. I just can not imagine a thing that is not...
Thanks for explaining it to me! I love retalivity but every time I think about I seem to get something backward.
I believe I read somewhere that Einstein claimed that light did not get a change in speed from the speed of a light bulb or something like that. I think Einstein said that light...
Wow! This is fascinating!
What if the flashlight is placed on the track bed and bound with duct tape to a cross tie so that it is exactly perpendicular to the tracks according to a protractor held against it?
Then, when the train rumbles by, a hobo standing in the embankment and looking...