Re:NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity a...
by aaomidi on Thursday October 01, 2020 @01:34AM
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I don't get what this means at all. Can you try to Eli5
Re:NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity a...
by BlackFly on Thursday October 01, 2020 @05:57AM
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To figure out how far a distance you traveled to get to my house, I need to know which path you took.
To figure out how long a time you traveled to get to my house, I need to know which path you took.
Our ordinary intuition is instead,
"To figure out how long a time you traveled to get to my house, I need to know the time on my clock when you left and the time on my clock when you arrived."
But that turns out to be wrong if you care about a high degree of precision or if you were traveling very fast.
Re:NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity a...
by pfortuny on Thursday October 01, 2020 @10:58AM
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Also because there is no meaning for the first value (there is no “synchronicity” between separate clocks).
Re:NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity a...
by andreareina on Thursday October 01, 2020 @01:41AM
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Might be reasonable, but it means that comparing timestamps between two observers requires knowing the observers' entire history back to some reference timestamp no? Still a headache.
Re:NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity a...
by jjbinx007 on Thursday October 01, 2020 @04:43AM
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Also, if we added the speed of light to an object's speed you'd get really weird results like you'd see a car coming towards you before the car actually arrived.
Trying to stay alive in such a world would be quite a challenge.
Re:NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity a...
by moron4hire on Thursday October 01, 2020 @07:21AM
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All the cars I see coming, I see them before they arrive
Re:NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity a...
by jjbinx007 on Thursday October 01, 2020 @12:23PM
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I meant like this: https://youtu.be/_pEiA0-r5A8
You would see the image of a car before the actual car arrived
When you think about it, you will realise there’s almost nothing else it could reasonably be.