Recent content by outandbeyond2004

Readers know already that a irf theoretically consist of a rigid lattice of clocks, one at each point of the rf. The problem is, what procedure should the experimentalist follow to ensure that all these clocks are synchronized, especially in the light (pun not intended) of Einstein's conclusion...

3D representation of spacetime on the Internet? Well, yes, if you agree that 2D space and 1 D time = 3D. But, if you mean 3D space, that would be a static representation, like a still photograph of a home run still high in the air. Of course the rubber-sheet representation shown on the TV and...

Let's just try to get away from gravitational fields for now and consider these 4 cases: (1) The charged particle is at rest in an inertial frame of reference, and you are also. (2) The charged particle is accelerating ("feels" an acceleration), but you are at rest in an inertial rf. (3)...

Turin wrote this: "slow down under the anisotropy of the impingent momentum of this radiation." Not sure what that means. One could say that most collisions are asymmetric, so might as well as ask "slow down after colliding with CRB photons," I think. As for galactic coordinates, they are...

Well, a photon colliding with an electron, say, often would give the electron pause <smile>. Compton scattering and Thomson scattering. Rayleigh scattering is proportional to the 4th power of the frequency. Other kinds of scattering possible. Come to think of it, you want Thomson scattering...

CRB = Cosmic Radiation Background. Nice graphic in this webpage showing the dipole: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/cosmology/cbr.html

"rational?" rotational is what I think you meant to write. Well, it would be nice to have some energy to converse with. I do believe I have some energy to help you anyway. Well, what's the first item you do not understand how to compute, for example, the moment of inertia of the sphere...

mee_moe, I am mildly curious, but I am skeptical because you say it is aimed at the layman! Not ducking the real pros, are we? Theory Development is a free for all anyway, so feel free to expound on your theory here or just start a new thread. And, wisp & you ought to get together sometime...

2clockdude's post #48 https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=192224&postcount=48 looks remarkably like what Martin Miller would write. You know the fella who got mad and called some people meatheads or something like that in a thread called 'The SR Question of the Century.'...

Better recheck the last two equations. 2*(x+2)/x is what you meant, is it not?

Why not think about measuring distances especially those that change with time? To say that something is 5 miles long is meaningless without specifying what that thing is. Always for distance measurement you have to specify two points. It would be meaningless to say that Paris is five miles...

Ray Tomes, is that a summary of what meemoe's theory really is? If it always makes the same predictions that SR does, why should we be interested in it?

Not only do we have to apply a time dilation factor for the velocity of the beat detector relative to the central irf, we have to apply another for the centrifugal force + gravitational force on the detector (General Relativity "gravitational redshift") as well. People using mathematics more...

I believe chroot is wrong about the time dilation of the train. The proper time of the train is related to the coordinate time of the observer's irf by this equation: (ds)^2 = (dt)^2 - (dx)^2 - (dy)^2 ( no dz term because the train does not go up/down.) The train is located by the...

Centrifugal forces on the train would create a time dilation effect like gravitational redshift. Also, the train would not be perfectly rigid; it would pancake somewhat. Moreover, I am not sure what the train would look like to the observer, going that fast around the track. Detailed and...