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- I am trying to understand a thought experiment I just posed, which is: if an observer is travelling near the speed of light, and sends out two photons; one in the direction of travel and one in the opposite direction, how does general relativity account for time dilation? The photon "in front" of you will be trying to escape at the same velocity as the photon "behind" you. Wouldn't that make any moving body more or less "stand still" in this frame of reference in order for C to be conserved?
I am trying to understand a thought experiment I just posed, which is: if an observer is traveling near the speed of light, and sends out two photons; one in the direction of travel and one in the opposite direction, how does general relativity account for time dilation? The photon "in front" of you will be trying to escape at the same velocity as the photon "behind" you. Wouldn't that make any moving body more or less "stand still" in this frame of reference in order for C to be conserved?