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Thank you! That clears up a lot. The book I was reading didn't mention they sent out two planes, it just mentioned they sent out one plane, and I see now they only mentioned the Eastward plane. I couldn't get over my confusion with the one plane story; the two plane story makes a lot more...

I understand the idea that, given two frames of reference, and measuring for a time T defined as the time between two events, T measured in the moving frame will be less than T measured in the stationary frame by a factor of (1-v/c)^1/2. So, they did this experiment in 1971 where they had two...

Hey, thanks for the help guys. Ya, I figured out later to just substitute a_n = a_n+1 and solve. I suppose I should prove that the series converges, but this is good enough for now. Thanks!

Hi, I'm trying to figure out the average age in a solera process. The equations are: A[SIZE="1"]n = (2/3)(A[SIZE="1"]n-1 + 1) + (1/3)(0) B[SIZE="1"]n = (2/3)(B[SIZE="1"]n-1 + 1) + (1/3)(A[SIZE="1"]n-1 + 1) C[SIZE="1"]n = (2/3)(C[SIZE="1"]n-1 + 1) + (1/3)(B[SIZE="1"]n-1 + 1) With initial...