Recent content by mathyou9

Yeah...I made my diagram using MS Paint. But you can rest assured I envisioned ghwellsjr's diagram as I made mine. :-)

Ahhh, yes! Like this, right? I totally understand simultaneity planes, but not seeing it in a proper Minkowski diagram, I guess I keep giving myself brainfarts. Haha! Thanks for being the "Gas X" for my brain. :-)

I got myself (over)thinking this. Since the scenario involves one-way trip(s), symmetry between both frames of reference remains intact. So from B's frame of reference, he's the rest frame and A and C are the ones moving with slower clocks. ? :

Ahhh, I got it now. My hangup was that each frame measures clocks in the other frame as going slow. I completely forgot (and I don't know why) to take into account B's "slanted" simultaneity plane relative to A & C's simultaneity plane. The other clock may run slow to you (and yours to it) but...

The "triplet paradox" that comes up in my Googling and search results involve one triplet that stays at rest and the other two venture out and back again, but in opposite directions. Essentially two "twin paradoxes" occurring together. But what about a scenario in which triplets A and B are...

Irrelevant context for anyone interested (feel free to skip this blue paragraph): I've always been a geeky, scientific nerd-type. But I've only been sort of a dilettante with all things science (i.e., well above the 50th percentile amongst my peers, but no area of expertise, by any means.)...

Of course. Universality of equation symbology would be nice, but that'll never happen. :-) --- Completely tangential to my OP: I can easily plug numbers into the kinematic time dilation equation without even thinking about it. But I've never really involved myself with the gravitation...

For both time dilation equations (kinematic and gravitational) I have often seen \Delta t^\prime = \frac{\Delta t}{\sqrt{1-(v/c)^2}} and \Delta t' = \frac{\Delta t}{\sqrt{1-\frac{2GM}{rc^2}}} I'll calls these equations as "Set A" ------------------------ And at other times as...