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yoron
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"my point is that even if both A and B are inertial reference frames, that does not imply they are stationary relative to each other. They may be moving together or apart at a constant rate, or one or both may be free falling with a net acceleration between them."
It's even worse than that Bahama :)
The definition of something being 'at rest' in relativity is that it has a uniform motion, nothing more.
You don't have any 'acceleration' at all in uniform motion, and your relative 'velocity' (I won't use speed here as that says nothing about a direction) doesn't mean a thing as I understands it for defining yourself as being 'at rest' relative something else.
There is no 'universal resting place', only relative ones. And what differs being 'at rest in a uniform motion relative being 'at rest' in a acceleration is that in a acceleration you know that you have inertia/gravity acting at you locally, constantly or intermediately, if now that is the right word to use?
If you introduce a third reference frame from where you define two comoving uniformly moving objects to be 'moving', you might do it relative a third frame, as the 'universe' at large for example. That doesn't change the fact that both can define themselves as being 'at rest' relative each other.
It's even worse than that Bahama :)
The definition of something being 'at rest' in relativity is that it has a uniform motion, nothing more.
You don't have any 'acceleration' at all in uniform motion, and your relative 'velocity' (I won't use speed here as that says nothing about a direction) doesn't mean a thing as I understands it for defining yourself as being 'at rest' relative something else.
There is no 'universal resting place', only relative ones. And what differs being 'at rest in a uniform motion relative being 'at rest' in a acceleration is that in a acceleration you know that you have inertia/gravity acting at you locally, constantly or intermediately, if now that is the right word to use?
If you introduce a third reference frame from where you define two comoving uniformly moving objects to be 'moving', you might do it relative a third frame, as the 'universe' at large for example. That doesn't change the fact that both can define themselves as being 'at rest' relative each other.