Timeline for Relativity Of Simultaneity Confusion
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Dec 14, 2019 at 6:30 | history | undeleted | SK Dash | ||
Dec 13, 2019 at 17:02 | history | deleted | SK Dash | via Vote | |
Dec 7, 2019 at 15:29 | comment | added | WillO | Those sensors can be set to test whether the signings are simultaneous in the train frame or they can be set to test whether the signings are simultaneous in the platform frame. They can't be set to test both at once. The OP hasn't told us how they're set. You start off by assuming you know how they're set. The OP needs to be reminded that it's his job to tell us how they're set, and that once he makes up his mind, there will no longer be a paradox. | |
Dec 7, 2019 at 14:45 | comment | added | SK Dash | (continued) there is a mechanism which means that the events must be simultaneous in the train reference frame | |
Dec 7, 2019 at 14:44 | comment | added | SK Dash | @WillO if you read the question "Now consider that there is a bomb in the middle of the train and that bomb would blow up if the two presidents don't sign the agreement simultaneously and won't blow up if they do (this can be achieved via sensors added at the back and front of the train)." | |
Dec 7, 2019 at 14:39 | comment | added | WillO | (CONTINUED) And it appears that he's never told us which Bomb he means because he has forgotten that "simultaneous in the train frame" and "simultaneous in the platform frame" are as different as a coin landing heads and the same coin landing tails. What he needs to understand is that these conditions can't both hold at the same time, therefore there can be no bomb that depends both on one and on the other. | |
Dec 7, 2019 at 14:36 | comment | added | WillO | I didn't downvote, but I'm pretty sure I know why people did. Let's imagine Bomb T, which explodes if and only if the signings are not simultaneous in the train frame and Bomb P, which explodes if and only if the signings are not simultaneous in the platform frame. The OP does not tell us which bomb he's imagining, then goes on to talk as if his bomb is both Bomb T and Bomb P at the same time, which is impossible (and this is the source of his confusion). Your answer assumes that he's talking about Bomb T, but we don't know that because he's never told us which bomb he means. (CONTINUED) | |
Dec 7, 2019 at 4:05 | comment | added | SK Dash | Can someone please tell what's wrong in the explanation before giving a downvote | |
Dec 7, 2019 at 3:42 | history | answered | SK Dash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |