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If I am standing at the bottom a spaceship of a Length L moving at a certain speed v (let's say half light speed so that relativistic effects aren't negligible), how would I go about calculating how long it would take the light beam to reach the top of the spaceship?
In Newtonian mechanics, it would just be t =(vt + L)/c since I would have to account for the distance (vt) that the spaceship moves vertically while the light beam is moving to reach the top.
Would this be correct in Relativity also? I don't think I would be aware of any Lorentz contractions since I am unaware I am in a moving reference frame,right?
In Newtonian mechanics, it would just be t =(vt + L)/c since I would have to account for the distance (vt) that the spaceship moves vertically while the light beam is moving to reach the top.
Would this be correct in Relativity also? I don't think I would be aware of any Lorentz contractions since I am unaware I am in a moving reference frame,right?