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    Undergrad Epstein diagrams and a traveling ship

    <quote>I think CB is the position of the nose of a moving ship and OD is the tail</quote> The opposite, The nose is CD
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    Undergrad Epstein diagrams and a traveling ship

    You are probably right about the lightcone (well this lightcone differs from Minkowski's), anyhow, the coordinates, well I marked the red line in second picture. I bet you want me to tell you how the clocks are set now?
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    Undergrad Epstein diagrams and a traveling ship

    Also, each particle can for example curve back to the x = 0 (and some y point, different one for each particle).This basically means all of them do meet at a single point in space, starting location in space. And all particles can compare how much they aged. Or... for example you can you can...
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    Undergrad Epstein diagrams and a traveling ship

    eternally inertial ship with the same speed looks the same in the diagram, eternally. It's just OB and CD lines extended to the infinity. There's nothing to explain here. It's an Epstein diagram. This diagram conserves the length of a four vector or the length of a curve (when a particle slowly...
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    Undergrad Epstein diagrams and a traveling ship

    So I've made a simple Epstein diagram. Length of a ship is 1, v is 0.6c. Length contraction is visible, time dilation is visible. So far so good, let's now look at this (I only added a red line) How a stationary ship (red line), transforms into a line O1 D1. It feels like four vector is not...
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    High School Double Double Slit Experiment -- Question about Variations

    What i think, the intuition says that detector should not detect any (very little) intensity. Yet, intuition might be wrong here. In the case of double polarisation filters intensity doesn't decrease if filters are aligned. Would love to see data from experimental setup. Was looking around...
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    High School Double Double Slit Experiment -- Question about Variations

    emitter -> double slit -> double slit -> detector. Was an experiment ever made where two double slits are placed at some distance between each other? What kind of interference pattern would you get? What would happen if second slits were placed at the position where there is destructive...
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    High School Time Dilation: Does Observer See Your Time Speed Up?

    Let's say a spaceship moves away from you at the 0.8 speed of light. Time slows down by the factor of 1 /sqrt(1 - 0.8^2)=5/3. Let's say you have a very powerful telescope and are able to see the clock on the spaceship very far away. After 1 year what time would you see on the spaceship? 3/5...
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    Undergrad General relativistic comparison to Newtonian physics

    "No, everything I said is correct", That's very healthy attitude while learning. There's no point to pinpoint what's wrong.
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    Undergrad General relativistic comparison to Newtonian physics

    https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/6913f70aac912e2a144c98036c7d8b96abf90ae7 is the proper time between two events for an observer close to the massive sphere, i.e. deep within the gravitational field is the coordinate time between the events for an observer at an...
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    Undergrad General relativistic comparison to Newtonian physics

    everything, it tells how much space is curved, it determines angle of curvature, how much object experiences gravitational time dilation. In special relativity case it determines how much length contracts for external observer, how much mass increases. But you already know that. What's the point...
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    Undergrad General relativistic comparison to Newtonian physics

    escape velocity at 1.5 r_s is c/sqrt(3/2), lorentz factor is 1 / sqrt(1 -2/3)
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    Undergrad General relativistic comparison to Newtonian physics

    No you misunderstood completely, I'm claiming that the formula gives the same result as GR, when orbital speed is between 0 and c. The factor 3 comes from spacetime curvature, when distance is 1.5r_s. The number is way lower for speeds below c, and it reduces to Newtonian gravity formula when v...
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    Undergrad General relativistic comparison to Newtonian physics

    Let's say a small object orbits around massive object at some distance in perfectly circular orbit. In Newtonian physics the force acted upon orbiting body is: Force = m1 * orbital_speed^2 / distance = G * (m1*m2) / r^2 for an object of 1kg orbiting a body of 2*30^kg at the distance of 1.521 *...