Are all events in eternal memory of spacetime?

  • Thread starter Snip3r
  • Start date
  • #1
Snip3r
102
0
consider A and B particles synchronizing clocks. Immediately after that B flies off at high velocity at the same time A flashes light perpendicular to B's motion. It hits some target c. Now in A's frame the event happened after t[itex]_{a}[/itex]=perpendicular distance/c. But in B's frame it happened after t[itex]_{b}[/itex]=hypotenuse/c evidently t[itex]_{b}[/itex] being higher. Does this mean all events exists always and there is always a frame which is yet to witness anything ever happened?
 

Answers and Replies

  • #2
ghwellsjr
Science Advisor
Gold Member
5,122
150
All frames are equally valid. There is nothing that one frame will provide a witness to any observer that another frame won't. Any event that you want to consider in one inertial frame can be transformed into any other inertial frame using the Lorentz Transform. But this doesn't mean that an observer can see anything differently just because a different frame is used. Frames just provide a consistent way to establish coordinates to things that happen.
 

Suggested for: Are all events in eternal memory of spacetime?

  • Last Post
Replies
1
Views
664
Replies
3
Views
423
Replies
14
Views
911
Replies
20
Views
1K
Replies
8
Views
484
Replies
7
Views
370
Replies
1
Views
557
  • Last Post
Replies
21
Views
915
Replies
141
Views
4K
Replies
41
Views
2K
Top