Timeline for Confused about Lorentz contraction
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| Feb 28, 2015 at 13:39 | comment | added | léo | The problem is that the passing speed can't be c-v, because the speed of the photon is always c! | |
| Feb 28, 2015 at 10:04 | comment | added | stuffu | I approve this approach :) How about this: L is a distance moving at speed v, it is a contracted distance. Photon passes that distance slowly, this slowness is related to time dilation. Passing speed is c-v. Distance left for photon to pass shrinks at rate c-v. | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 23:25 | comment | added | léo | I think you are right. Two points: 1) Time dilation is only true for events happening in ONE POINT. That was not clear for me! Now I understand also why a photon has to go up and down or back and forth in a lightclock ... to come back at the starting point. So we need ONE CLOCK (starting point) + MIRROR. 2) the distance the photon travels for O is not L, but L + the distance covered by O' (photon toward mirror) or L - distance covered by O' (return photon ). Taking into account these two points, I can solve the problem, got the formula for time dilation and L is Lorentcontracted! | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 16:12 | history | edited | stuffu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 27, 2015 at 15:39 | history | answered | stuffu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |