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Thank you very much for your effort sir. My understanding was that time dilation occurred because of prolonged signal propagation; on the contrary, on wikipedia it says that it's the fabric of spacetime itself that's changed. When I looked up what spacetime was, I found it was described as a...

http://aether.lbl.gov/www/classes/p139/exp/experiment3.html At first I thought this was quite straightforward and went along with it, derived the formula and continued with the next experiment. But then I went back and got stuck. First of all, how does Mrs. Einstein observe the photon at all if...

I haven't finished reading all the posts here, but I have a couple of questions if you good folks don't mind. I've run into this thread while searching for explanations of ideas that underlie the theory of general relativity. I think I now understand Einstein's reasoning. The reasoning is that...