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If the emmission angle of the laser was at and angle to the direction of travle of the MFR

if this is right what effects would this have on a laser at very high velocity ?

Assumptions A photon exist in three dimensions so it has length, width and height. In fig 2 I show and electron that is stationary so it is in a moving frame of reference with a very small velocity say 10 m/sec. This fig is snapshots taken of the electron a times 1,2,3,4 etc as a photon is...

for some reason I am posting a new thread it was shown for a while and now it has vanished ?

Ill attempt to clear up one problem at a time I am in a space shipthat is moving, can I sunchronise two clocks in the spaceship Yes / No?

Im sorry about this I should have been more precise. What I meant to say is that the time on clock 1 is exactly the same as on clock 2 and the rate at which time passess in clock 1 and clock 2 is also exactly the same. As the clocks were identical and thus have identical internal workings I...

So what you are saying is the type of synchronisation used is depent on the application. So if a physicist is measuring an unknown phenonmenon he just chooses some arbitratry synchronisation, as it would be impossible for him to know the appropriate synchronisation to use. He could choose clock...

the picture is not to scale, I drew it in paint, not CAD. I am sure you can choose an appropriate scale and lengths and heights to make this work.

Fig 1 In Fig 1 I have a clock. The green bit is a light globe that surprisingly emits photons. The red bit is a detector that detects the photons. In a stationary frame of reference the time taken for as photon to move from A to B will be t = square root ((H x H) + (L x L)) ( hypotenuse...

Synchronizing clock The purpose of synchronizing clocks is so the time on one clock is as close a possible to the time on another clock. This can be achieved by any means possible to make the error as small as possible. In Fig 0 the green bit is a laser that surprisingly emits photons. The...

Lorentz contraction LC from wikipedia Length contraction, according to the special theory of relativity, which was formulated in the early twentieth century through the seminal work of Einstein, Poincaré and Lorentz, is the physical phenomenon of a decrease in length detected by an observer...

this should read ... If the clock at the green end stopped when a photon from the red end struck it then simultenatoiety may be a problen assuming this whole gizmo is traveling very fast but as the clock at the green end stops when a photon leaves the green end and the clock at the green end...

Forget relavtivity this exeriment is taking place inside a snail Sorry but I have thought of the synchronisation of the clocks. I would synchronise them thus: I would place the two clocks as close together as possible. Depending on the physical construction of the clocks this means the...

virus FYI You cannot catch a virus from a bitmap file .bmp You can catch a virus from a word doc but only if you have macros enabled. This word doc does not use a macro so you can view it with macros disabled. Also you can catch a virus from carney so be wary of them as well

e_Freddo The first person to find a flaw in my reasoning wins a zero calorie e_freddo :)