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Kkochanskij replied to the thread Undergrad Another Time Dilation Question.Thank you for pointing that out. You are correct. The fact that one twin changes from one inertial frame to another is the important...
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Kkochanskij replied to the thread Undergrad Another Time Dilation Question.Yes, absolutely right. Inertia force of acceleration can be regarded as a gravitational force. Just like fictitious centrifugal and...
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Kkochanskij replied to the thread Undergrad Another Time Dilation Question.When the astronaut is moving at a constant speed, he is in an inertial frame, so he can consider himself to be at rest. But during his...
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Kkochanskij replied to the thread Undergrad Another Time Dilation Question.Yes, there is another part to the scenario. I was just explaining why Twin A isn't going on a 10 lightyear trip, from his point of view...
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Kkochanskij replied to the thread High School Ant on a stretchy rope puzzle.Yes, I got the same result. You gave an excellent complete solution.
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Kkochanskij replied to the thread Undergrad Another Time Dilation Question.I think I understand your question. The traveling twin A is NOT making a 10 lightyear trip at almost C. He is making a much shorter trip...
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Kkochanskij replied to the thread I am writing a SciFi story but I don't like Rayguns.An N dimensional manifold can be tied into a knot only in N+2 dimensional space. So a 2D surface, like a plane or surface of a sphere...
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Kkochanskij replied to the thread Graduate About a natural extension of Collatz conjecture.Fascinating! I like your generalization of Collatz. It is a perfect analogy of Collatz for different a values. I would like to point out...