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How fast can time flow? A question of time dilation
(I would describe myself as an illiterate physics enthusiast, so I hope you'll forgive me if my ignorance is borderline offensive.)
If I've understood anything of the concept of time dilation, your ...
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Space time a function of itself, objects in it, or both?
Is spacetime a function of itself, objects within it, or both? I am struggling to understand just what is spacetime without objects in it (or theoretical reference points) and thus no frame of ...
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How would time duration and space distance change when we move in the speed of light? [closed]
It is possible to figure out how time duration and space distance change when we are close to the speed of light - but I am not sure what happens to them if we travel in the speed of light.
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Car parking special-relavity puzzle
Hi I read the following puzzle from an old text book long time ago. However it doesn't provide the answer. So what is the solution?
Let's suppose a car is going to park to a garage and the garage is ...
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Calculating the speed of an object moving relative to another moving Object (Frame of reference) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to deduce the theorem of addition of velocities?
Let's say that you are in a rocket speeding at 90% the speed of light away from Earth. Now fire a bullet inside the ...
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Time dilation at the speed of light
Does a massless particle travelling at the speed on light in a vacuum (c) experience an infinite time dilation effect?
i.e. Would the time dilation extend from the perspective of the massless ...
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Does the “Andromeda Paradox” (Rietdijk–Putnam-Penrose) imply a completely deterministic universe?
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietdijk–Putnam_argument
Abstract of 1966 Rietdijk paper:
A proof is given that there does not exist an event, that is not already in the past for ...
