Recent content by W.RonG

there's another one. I think y'all need to hash this over and decide which version of Special Relativity you believe in - the one where all inertial frames are equal, or the one where some inertial frames are more equal than others. Either way it's been an interesting weekend. Toodles. Ron

another one early on. 'Ich' typed: "This is not about the aging process, and not abhout different conditions the twins have been living in. For one twin, 10 years passed, for the other 5. With all consequences." Ron

Since you asked, check out 'atyy' and 'sylas' in the thread I linked earlier, and apparently 'TcheQ' above. Not sure where 'stevmg' stands, seems to be leaning to the other side as well. I think the difference between me and Fredrik is semantic, where I say clock B appears to observer A to be...

actually that is what several posters are claiming. Ron

check out the similar discussion in this thread: https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=382591 Apparently some people think that time dilation is a real slowing down, whereas it is really only an effect of observation between two different inertial frames. In Special Relativity, all...

Well, this has certainly been enlightening. Since I have only been 'dabbling' in Physics for forty years or so, I was aware only of the 'classical' Twins Paradox. That's the one that came out of Special Relativity, where 'B' flies around in space while 'A' watches, and since neither is in a...

To 'atyy' and 'sylas': you are assigning preference to one inertial frame over another. Ron

Recall that the 'Twins Paradox' arose specifically out of Special Relativity as an effect of Time Dilation. It is quite simple; does Time Dilation cause one clock to tick more slowly than another? the consequence of this phenomenom is the paradox, that one clock will count less time than another...

Funny that the name Brian Greene came up. I remembered another example of the aging difference fallacy. I was perusing the physics section of a large book store about a year ago, happened on Mr. Greene's book more recent than the Elegant Universe. Not sure the title, but I opened it to the page...

But in Relativity, nobody is standing still. Everybody is 'the guy moving'. Ron

Since this is the Relativity section, think of the situation in terms of Special Relativity. The 2nd postulate says that all observers measure the speed of light to be the same c. So it doesn't matter to me how 'fast' any other object is traveling, I always measure c as c. I could accelerate...

Far be it for me to take on Mr. Michio Kaku, the really really smart guy I was referring to. But I have watched the shows he narrated about Time and remember distinctly the leap he made from stating one clock appears to another to be ticking more slowly, to the statement (after a commercial...

There may be some who do not understand or believe in SR. I made that statement as a pre-emptive defense against someone who might claim that I don't. The mathematics of SR are basically inarguable. One thing that could possibly negate SR is if someone were to show that an observer measures...

Not really challenging facts, just keeping the conclusions in check. I understand and believe in Special Relativity. In doing so, and being intellectually consistent and honest, I can only conclude that a clock moving relative to another clock appears to tick more slowly but in fact does not...

Keep in mind that what I've said flies directly in the face of about a century of some very smart people saying some very wrong things. I really don't have much hope of changing minds here with my humble postings, but I could not just sit here and let the fallacious ideas continue unchallenged...