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David Carroll
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I apologize if this has been discussed before. I am no physicist, I am just trying to see if I am understanding special relativity correctly. Please be advised I am dumb, so be gentle.
If a spaceship (sorry for the cliché, but it's a little bit cumbersome to keep using the phrase "inertial frame of reference" or the like) is moving at such a speed that time dilates by a factor of 2, this means that the length of the spaceship is also contracted by a factor of 2, yes? (All, of course, from the perspective of me, the "stationary" observer).
If an object within the spaceship is accelerating at some given rate according to the passengers, would that object also be accelerating at the same rate from MY perspective?
She got to tv eye on me, she got to tv eye on me...
If a spaceship (sorry for the cliché, but it's a little bit cumbersome to keep using the phrase "inertial frame of reference" or the like) is moving at such a speed that time dilates by a factor of 2, this means that the length of the spaceship is also contracted by a factor of 2, yes? (All, of course, from the perspective of me, the "stationary" observer).
If an object within the spaceship is accelerating at some given rate according to the passengers, would that object also be accelerating at the same rate from MY perspective?
She got to tv eye on me, she got to tv eye on me...