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So are u saying that when the rear of the train passes me, i will see the front clock of the train to be 12.00 and the back clock of the train to be 12.15. However, a person on the train will disagree and see both the front and the back clocks to be the same time which is longer than 12.25...

What I am not sure about is when you said 'And each frame will observe the other's clocks to go slow'. Are you saying that both clocks will observed to be slow by each person in each of the frame? But the equation \Delta t = \Delta t_0 / \sqrt{1 - v^2/c^2} will only mean one of the time to be...

A good example will be the 'Twin Paradox'. In this case whos time will be slowing down?

But why should the person in the moving frame reads the same time 't'? Since from the perspective of the person in the moving frame, the stationary frame should be the one moving and not his, then he should read time 't' to be slower isn't it?

If both clocks are 'right', doesn't that means both people in the stationary frame and the moving frame will see the same clock at one frame (lets say the stationary frame) to be 2 different times?

I have understand how the equation works and what it means now thanks! But i will like to ask you a paradox. From my perspective ( let's say a stationary frame on a train station platform on Earth), the clock in the moving frame (lets say a clock in a train) will appear slow to me. However, from...

Thanks a lot Doc Al, i understand now. To verify, i will give an example. Let's say we are going to conduct an experiment which is the same as the example given by you previously. I will start the experiment at 1pm and put a clock in the moving frame which is at first synchronised when at rest...

Let \Delta t_0 be the time interval measured by a clock (call it clock A) in frame #1, the rest frame frame of clock A. when u are saying time interval, what's the time difference measured from?

thank you very much jdstokes. because I am quite new to this topic so that is y i posted a lot of questions. another thing i want to verify is when measuring \Delta t_0 and \Delta t, are we comparing both intervals from the same frame? if yes, what is that frame?

thanks a lot i understand what u mean. but what i want to know precisely is that when using the equation for the example given by Doc Al, the velocity 'v' is the velocity of the frame of the moving clock that has a time interval of \Delta t_0, correct?

i don't understand. when u say 'a clock measures a time interval of...', which clock are u talking about?

i understand that time slows down as compared to a stationary perspective when an object is traveling at a certain velocity, but by how much does time slows down for that object? what's the formula behind this time difference? also, i understand that Einstein has derived this idea when he was...