Recent content by MrXavia

What happens if the ship stops at planet X, no longer is Earth fleeing away at .866c, so a signal sent will take 10 years by the travellers clock and 10 years by the Earth clock, arriving only 12.88 years after departure?

I have another thought.. Two satellites in orbit of something, they are orbiting in different directions. Now that means that their relative speed is constantly changing, what happens to time? Both thrusted the same, both experience the same accelaration to start, so who has the slower...

Ok so the pilot would see space contract when he sets off from the first station? Interesting indeed Would the clocks seem in sync again once he arrives at the second station? Very interesting.

Interesting, I wish someone would do a decent experiment to prove this. On a side note, what about time-dilation between planets i.e. Earth and mars. Does time flow at different speeds?

Are you sure? If by his clock it takes 13.9 minutes to travel 8 light minutes, his calculated speed would be higher than 0.5c. Not sure I understand that, I thought they were in perfect sych before he left, and both are moving the same relative speed to him, so how can they be out of sych as...

The pilot would measure his speed as faster than .5c but isn't it also valid to say that he is stationary and the rest of the universe moves? after all evey frame of reference is valid. So to his measurements the clocks on the space stations would be slow and he would arrive early? How...

Hi, I am having a hard time getting my head around the time slowing down bit of the theory, and I could do with someone explaining it to me. From my understanding, the faster you travel the slower time gets right? but also any frame of reference is valid, so speed is again relative. and...