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:
An = (2/3)(An-1 + 1) + (1/3)(0)
Bn = (2/3)(Bn-1 + 1) + (1/3)(An-1 + 1)
Cn = (2/3)(Cn-1 + 1) + (1/3)(Bn-1 + 1)
With initial state:
A0 = 0
B0 = 0
C0 = 0
The question is, what is C as n goes to infinity?