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Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad How does reciprocal time dilation work?.This statement suggest you still do not grasp the relativity of simultaneity. Consider for space like separated events ##A,B##, I can... -
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Time doesn't depend on frames. Only time interval depends on the frames. (as in example above) -
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I'm not sure what this question even means. In actual experiments, there is no such thing as "quantum interference pattern" vs... -
Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM."The counting" that I was referring to was the one in Art Hobson's quote mentioned in post #241 which I assumed was meant for fields in...
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Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad How does reciprocal time dilation work?.If I had an "a-ha" moment for special relativity, it was after learning General Relativity. Specifically chapter 8 in Wald on causal...
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Once I have defined a light-clock diamond (in my local region), and make reasonable assumptions of homogeneity and isotropy, I can...
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Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad How does reciprocal time dilation work?.Yes I would agree. To be clear, what I meant was that the construction I made in post #16 is the idealized / non realistic one...
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Matterwave reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM with
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Yes, it is not trivial. :wink: As in, yes, we have no bananas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas -
Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad How does reciprocal time dilation work?.I have no problem teaching this radar-construction method for inertial observer coordinates. I think it gives a very nice illustration...
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Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM.Semantic question -- when you say "yes it is", you are saying it's trivial to count or it's not trivial to count? I might have phrased...
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Note that 'observers' is often used as a confusing synonym for 'reference frames', which is exactly what relativity of simultaneity...
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Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM.I'm going to have to think on this more but it seems highly non-trivial to me to even count the number of fields.
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Up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom. Yes, that counting leaves out the quarks' color charge. But note that, for example, when we say...
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Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad How does reciprocal time dilation work?.Pretty good starting point, but let's make things a bit sharper. Consider 1. Is it possible to do what you say for any two events...
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Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM.What is the reason to count only 6 quarks? We count only the doublet from the weak SU(2) interaction and not the triplet from the strong...