I still don't get one thing. If we consider ourselves as revolving around the sun, such that we are moving, why will our measurements of light be as if we are not moving.
Zapper:
I understand what your saying that a revolving thing is different from something moving steadily. My problem, however, is as follows.
The whole relativity thing started because people thought that our movement on Earth should affect the speed of light, but their mesurements said...
PF Mentor: I don't get your answer. Are we on the moving Earth considered still, such that the sun revolves around us?
If not, then we are moving, and we should be able to measure the so called ether wind.
Can someone explain to me how those who believe relativity also believe that the Earth revovles around the sun. I thought that relativity claims that a moving body considers itself at rest. If so, we on Earth should consider ourselves at rest, such that the sun is revolving around us?
Help me out here to see how the back front back clock will be the same as the up down clock.
For demostrative purposes say the ship is going at the speed of light or close to it, if that is not possible.
If "up" takes one second, up and down will take two seconds for the guy on the ship...
In my question, I was timing only the path of the lightbeam from front to back to tell the time. We can use numerous front to back lightbeams to tell the time. In this case, the moving ship calculates longer paths from front to back, whereas from my perspective the back wall comes closer in for...
I have a time question concerning relativity. I read that time slows down on a moving object from my perspective. This is so based on a lightbeam going up and down on the moving object. In my persepctive the light path is longer. In his perspective it is shorter. Thus, in my perspective his time...