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Jaime Rudas reacted to Dale's post in the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances? with
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The speed of expansion of the length of an elastic band certainly does. You could measure the stress or the strain in the band. -
Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.For example, if I have an elastic band that is one centimeter long and I stretch it for one hundredth of a second, its final length will... -
Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.I don't know how to determine whether something has physical meaning or not. For example, I can't understand why the speed at which an... -
Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.Once again: I made a mistake -
Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.Once again: I made a mistake when I said I was referring to the distance traveled by the photon. -
Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.As I understand it, the peculiar speed is relative to a comoving observer, that is, with respect to an observer whose peculiar speed is... -
Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.The fact that the peculiar speed of light is c is something I took from Davis & Lineweaver, and my knowledge of the subject isn't... -
Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.I agree -
Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.Yes, that's the case I was referring to. -
Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.What I meant is that time inside the bubble flows at the same rate as outside (and far away from) the bubble. -
Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.I don't understand what you mean, nor do I see how it relates to what I posted. -
Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.Yes, it seems we're having problems with the issue of relative simultaneity. -
Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.It doesn't seem weird to me because spacetime at the center of the bubble is flat. The extremely curved spacetime is that of the "walls"... -
Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.It seems to me that this applies to distances inside the bubble, but not to distances along a path going through the bubble. -
Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.I agree. I'm not entirely clear on the relationship of this to what I mentioned about peculiar velocity, but it seems to me that the...