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5.1 Time in Motion

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    • It’s really a great way of explaining time dilation as far as i have seen.
      the visualisation ia wonderful.

    • I love your demonstration of time dilation. Physics for dummies – thank you!

    • I love your demonstration of time dilation. Physics for dummies – thank you!

    • I love your demonstration of time dilation. Physics for dummies – thank you!

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    • Amazing stuff! One question though, what if C were not the constant and M was the constant? Would the math still work, just with a different outcome?

    • What f we place the light clock in the direction of motion or kept at 90degree than you done before

    • What f we place the light clock in the direction of motion or kept at 90degree than you done before

    • I could imagine ourselves, in a fish bowl, looking out and creating the universe while we try and find ourselves. Perception is truly reality; mine is mine and yours is yours, but thoughts are immortal and therefore omnipresent. The aether collects the good and bad, as we collect the remains dripping off of the cosmic pan. Keep on thinking, it’s a timeless collector.

    • Anthony, this is science. When you introduce statements such as “thoughts are immortal and therefore omnipresent”, you deviate from the basic tenets of science. If your statement is a scientific hypothesis, then it must be testable, at least in principle. What would be your experimental setup to test the immortality and omnipresence of your thoughts? What would your thought detector look like? How would you confirm that the omnipresent thought is there, and how would you propose to test its duration? Would your detector work in a hypothetical sense, eons from now, if all humanity were long extinct, along with anyone who could have once had those thoughts? What is the nature of your alleged immortal thoughts?
      Stick to science, real science, to find actual answers to how the universe works.

    • Suppose we tilt the light clock 90-deg such that the bouncing light within the clock travels in the same direction as the clock’s motion relative to the observer. Can we do a geometric-based time analysis in this case to show that time has slowed in the moving clock?

      • Hi Bruce, It is possible of course to do the same analysis with a tilted clock but it wouldn’t be so easy because you should take into account the Lorentz contraction of the distance between the mirrors of the ligth-clock. Other issue would be the asymetric tick tock because one mirror would aproach and the other would escape from the light ball. It is much better for both visualization and calculation, to choose the mirrors paralel to the movement. Nevertheless with a tilted clock, no matter how much degrees, you would get the same time dilation.

    • Thank you sir. You are the best teacher of physics.

    • What happens if the light clock is in accelerated motion. How will the time get effected in this accelerated motion?

    • What happens if the light clock is in accelerated motion. How will the time get effected in this accelerated motion?

    • What happens if the light clock is in accelerated motion. How will the time get effected in this accelerated motion?

    • @Michael Zebrowitz (regarding your reply to Anthony Toledo on August 30, 2020 at 10:15 am)
      I fully agree with you. All the mumbo-jumbo hocus-pocus “omni”-stuff should not cloud the scientific method. You put it very well. Cheers!

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