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- Epstein diagrams and a traveling ship
So I've made a simple Epstein diagram. Length of a ship is 1, v is 0.6c. Length contraction is visible, time dilation is visible.
So far so good, let's now look at this (I only added a red line)
How a stationary ship (red line), transforms into a line O1 D1. It feels like four vector is not conserved here. The question is: how do you draw a diagram of how the red line transforms into O1 D1 over time. Both the front of the ship and the back of the ship should travel the same distance in spacetime (not space).
So far so good, let's now look at this (I only added a red line)
How a stationary ship (red line), transforms into a line O1 D1. It feels like four vector is not conserved here. The question is: how do you draw a diagram of how the red line transforms into O1 D1 over time. Both the front of the ship and the back of the ship should travel the same distance in spacetime (not space).