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Re: Relativity Question
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Wed, 8 Nov 2000 18:29:01 GMT
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MATTDM@MATTDM.ORGspamless
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Just looked this up in Britannica Online. (Search for "time dilation").
Acceleration definitely plays into it. *All* clocks in non-accelerating
motion relative to an observer run slow by his/her frame of reference. (Thus
potentially causing arguments about what order things happened in.) But I
still don't get what determines who is the inertial observer and who is the
noninertial one.
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| (...) Not quite sure what you mean by "inertial" and "noninertial," since as you point out previously *everyone* is moving. However, within a local inertial frame the Doppler shift of light can be identified to be of a particular character (I don't (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Maybe. I don't understand it well enough. Lemme think about the headlights thing.... For someone standing on earth, light is moving away at about 300,000km/sec. Then, say we have a spaceship, moving at half the speed of light relative to (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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