Recent content by kablion

Ok to all of you: You helped me a lot! Thank You! That relativity of simultaneity was the one thing I missed on understanding special Relativity.

Ok I think I understand now what my real problem here is: Why or How can 2 events occur at the same moment in one frame, but in another frame they occur at different moments? Has this scenario or theory a name?

Ok I guess you didn't understand me right. The total way the light has to travel is divided in two ways (I think you know what a lightclock is?!): the way the light has to travel from the first mirror to the second mirror and the light has to travel back again to the first mirror. So the...

Hey, I'm currently working on an explanation of the special Relativity. Now I'm at the point of explaining length contraction, but I don't understand why the following example is a reason for length contraction to exist: Imagine we have two Lightclocks in a fast moving Rocket. Lightclock 1...