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JJames Hasty replied to the thread I Synchronizing clocks in an inertial frame if light is anisotropic.I agree this works, but only because you have defined the convention for the 1-way speed of light in both directions.
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Just to clarify the point, I drew the following diagram. The base grid ##(x,t)## represents of course the standard inertial coordinate... -
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That is good work. It is much more difficult to do than it appears at first glance.
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JJames Hasty reacted to cianfa72's post in the thread I Synchronizing clocks in an inertial frame if light is anisotropic with Like.
Yes, as far as I can tell the key point is that basically, before the exchange of light signals between observer A and B takes place, it...
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JJames Hasty replied to the thread I Synchronizing clocks in an inertial frame if light is anisotropic.The purpose of my post was to demonstrate a way to synchronize two clocks located in the same inertial frame. I thought this would be...
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JJames Hasty reacted to Dale's post in the thread I Synchronizing clocks in an inertial frame if light is anisotropic with Like.
Indeed, if I am reading my notebook correctly the Lagrangian for a free particle in an Anderson synchronized frame is $$L=-(\dot...
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JJames Hasty reacted to pervect's post in the thread I Synchronizing clocks in an inertial frame if light is anisotropic with Like.
I'd like to expand on my earlier point. Suppose we have some frame in which Newton's laws work. Two equal masses moving in opposite...
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JJames Hasty reacted to pervect's post in the thread I Synchronizing clocks in an inertial frame if light is anisotropic with Like.
As long as you don't believe that your clock synchronization has any physical significance, in particular as long as you don't address...
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JJames Hasty reacted to Dale's post in the thread I Synchronizing clocks in an inertial frame if light is anisotropic with Like.
Indeed, to be clear post a spacetime diagram with each event labeled and each signal indicated. And perform your calculations using one...
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JJames Hasty replied to the thread I Synchronizing clocks in an inertial frame if light is anisotropic.Let's be clear on definitions: The 2WSOL can be calculated by timing a reflected light beam using 1 clock. For example: A sends a signal...
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JJames Hasty replied to the thread I Synchronizing clocks in an inertial frame if light is anisotropic.An observer can only know that if the 1WSOL is isotropic. I am assuming it is not.
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JJames Hasty replied to the thread I Synchronizing clocks in an inertial frame if light is anisotropic.That is for the 2WSOL (2-way round trip of light), which is a given because it is true. I am assuming the 1WSOL is anisotropic.
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JJames Hasty replied to the thread I Synchronizing clocks in an inertial frame if light is anisotropic.In the introduction, "it is given" that the average speed of light is c for the 2WSOL . Then t[B2] - t[B1] = 2L/c.
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JJames Hasty posted the thread I Synchronizing clocks in an inertial frame if light is anisotropic in Special and General Relativity.ASSUMPTIONS 1. Two identical clocks A and B in the same inertial frame are stationary relative to each other a fixed distance L apart...
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JJames Hasty reacted to Sagittarius A-Star's post in the thread I Why measure the speed of light in one direction? with Like.
This must be true, because the definition of such coordinates is based on the Einstein clock synchronization, that means on the...