Thank you Mr JesseM and Mr Matheinste, for your genuine desire to help and for your beeing so patient with me. I have studied the explanation of Mr JesseM last post. I checked all the example, and inclusive used the Lorentz equations and spacetime diagrams to verify what you have exposed...
Dear Mr JesseM. and Mr Matheinste.
No, I am unfortunately not happy. And here are my reasons:
The explanations below are directed to you and to all our friends who have helped me, working in the question that originated this thread.
The Thought Experiment in this thread is very simple...
Dear Mr Jesse.
I just have to suppose that the two pulses, from A and from C, depart at the same T=0, on the spaceship, toward B. And this reasonable and acceptable in this thought experiment. Any acceptable and correct method to make the synchronization of the clocks on A and C is valid for...
Dear Mr Matheinste,
That is the point that I have dificulty in accepting. Remember the old story of the Einstein long train which was striken by two lightinings at the same time, at its both ends? How one can deny that, considering that the train is moving, the light of the lightenings will...
Dear Mr Jesse . Thank you for your genuine desire to help. As I told you before, I decided to accept the risk of sending you the graphics, where I try to picture to you exactly what I imagine is happening on the spaceship ABC. I had to append it because if I put it here the graphics will be...
Mr Russ. I think that we are discussing exactly the core of the experiment, and what you say is in perfect adherence to the Theory. What I am doing, which seems to be somewhat “not accepted”, is to forget that convention of reference frames, and imagining the spaceship on space, alone, full...
Mr Russ. I think that we are discussing exactly the core of the experiment, and what you say is in perfect adherence to the Theory. What I am doing, which seems to be somewhat “not accepted”, is to forget that convention of reference frames, and imagining the spaceship on space, alone, full...
Jesse. I think that we are discussing exactly the core of the experiment, and what you say is in perfect adherence to the Theory. I accept that the spaceship is at rest in its reference frame. What I am doing, which seems to be somewhat “not accepted”, is to forget that convention of reference...
Thanks for your attention, and I would say that now you got the real conception of the experiment. Let's put it in a little diferent way. The sapaceship is ABC, as before. B is in the center and the emitters A and C are at the opposite ends of the spaceship. The movement of ABC, if any, can only...
OK, Jesse. You are right about how other observers will see the events inside the spaceship. But remember that the experiment, to fulfil its purpose, need not to consider other observers. Just look at each possibility the experiment generates, and try to judge if the correspondent conclusions of...
Mr. Russ Watters. 1. The experiment is not measuring any speed among the objects in the spaceship. All of them, A and C (the emitters), and B (the receiver), are fixed inside the spaceship and their relative speed is none. 2. The experiment, due to its purpose, says nothing about other objects...
The experiment does not deny that the velocity of the light pulse is the same and constant inside the spaceship. Just because of that, if the spaceship is moving to the right, the pulse from C will strike B before the pulse from A does it, and Tc<Ta. In the same way, if the spaceship is moving...
I am not understanding your above reply. Indeed, the experiment (Attached to the thread) does not mention any buoy at all. The experiment only considers one spaceship (ABC), with three apparatus and one observer inside it. Sorry, but I think there has been some misunderstanding. Can you please...
Attached to this post is a thought experiment in space. It is only one page (38kb) in microsoft Word. At the end of the page is my question, and I hope some of you may help me about it. Thank you in advance.