Timeline for Einstein's train experiment with clocks
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| Mar 14, 2018 at 23:12 | comment | added | JEB | Also: If by "complicated machinery" you mean something that can get signals instantaneously across a distance, that is, from outside its lightcone, then yes: you will violate the laws of physics. | |
| Mar 14, 2018 at 22:57 | comment | added | JEB | For the platform observer, the start times of the clocks are not related to the lightning bolt strikes. Nothing is synchronized for him. Intervals with space-like separation cannot be time ordered in all reference frames. | |
| Mar 14, 2018 at 16:14 | comment | added | freddyfx | Whatever the initial value is, both displays are synchronized. For the train observer, they stop at the same value. For the platform observer, there is an interval between the first display being stopped and the second. How is it possible for the second display to stop without being hit by the second lightning bolt? According to the platform's observer laws of physics, the second display should keep running, and stop only when the complicated machinery of 'stop value' is activated by the second lighnting. | |
| Mar 11, 2018 at 17:20 | history | edited | JEB | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 11, 2018 at 16:57 | history | answered | JEB | CC BY-SA 3.0 |