Elimelech70 said:
TL;DR Summary: Reading Einstein Relativity and the trains experiences lightening strikes differently to the embankment. Does it show experience is relative and time is finite, so is not a perfect measure?
Reading Einstein Relativity. The trains experiences lightening strikes differently to the embankment.
I must confess I don't like that Einstein thought experiment. I think it's very confusing.
Elimelech70 said:
So the two events are experienced differently from the two reference points because they have different distances to the events. Light from the events taking different times to reach each reference point due to different distances. It shows a reference point's proximity to the two different events will result in different experence due to the speed of light being finite.
The finite speed of light and the delay in light signals from an event reaching an observer is not what the theory of Relativity depends on. In fact, the first estimate of the speed of light (by Roemer in 1676) used the delay in light signals from one of Jupiter's moons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rømer's_determination_of_the_speed_of_light
This delay in signals always was part of the observational calculations in Newtonian physics.
It's a common misconception that relativity somehow depends on the finite speed of light.
Elimelech70 said:
It does not represent time in a way that shows it to be relative, just that experience of events due to lights time to reach. The only way to prove simultaneity would be to use a measure that is instant rather that is finite like light. So is time relative, I am not convinced it has proven it.
The historical development of the theory of relativity depends on the speed of light being
invariant. That means a light signal is measured to have the same speed in all inertial frames of reference. This is quite simply incompatible with absolute space and time. I.e. incompatible with Newtonian physics.
The only alternative is Special Relativity.
To determine the issue you need an experiment. Relativity predicts that no particle can travel faster than the speed of light. If you design a particle accelerator and accelerate particles to high energies, then that should resolve the issue. If the particles get accelerated beyond the speed of light, then relativity would be wrong.
But, of course, when particles are accelerated at CERN (or any other experimental centre), not only is their speed limited by the speed of light, but all the other predictions of relativity are seen: energy-momentum equations and ##E = mc^2## etc.