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Very smart and meticulous of you, very careless of me!pervect said:I think you mean by this that A's clock will read 215.47years when B reaches A.Stephanus said:B will reach A at 115.4701 years.
Because γ=2, then B will reach A according to B clock for 57.7350 years...
When A's clock read 215.47 year or 115.47 year from A's clock read 100 years which is the first time A receive signal from B.
Yes, thanks 0.2679 actually, just copied only 2 dec points.pervect said:B will receive a signal from A every γ(1−v/c) years as per wiki. There are several alternate equivalent formulae. I get this as a period of .2679 years, close to your figure.
Thank you, thank you. I learn much from this.pervect said:A will send out a total of 216 plus a fraction signals that B will receive, the first signal A0 will be received by B when B starts the trip at B's time of 100. (Note that the set {0,1,...,215} contains 216 elements.) The first signal is numbered A0, the last A215. The spacing between signals is .2679 years. The last signal from A, A215, will be received at a time of 215*.2679 = 57.6 years according to B's clock, near the end of B's trip.
B will send out a total of 58 signals on the trip, the first signal B100, the last signal B157. A will receive the first signal, B100, at 200 years on A's clock due to propagation delays, the same time at which A will see B's rocket flare through a telescope (if A is looking).
A will receive signals from that point at the rate of 1 signal every .2679 years, so the last signal, B57, will arrive at 200+.269*57 = 215.27 on A's clock, shortly before B arrives.