Timeline for Seperation Between a Rocket and an Emitted Photon
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| Oct 18, 2023 at 3:24 | answer | added | RudyJD | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 17, 2023 at 22:17 | comment | added | RudyJD | @WillO Right, thankfully Thomas and Marco helped me realize that I was not accounting for simultaneity. | |
| Oct 17, 2023 at 21:28 | comment | added | WillO | @RudyJD: "Its just space between the two". I think we've found the source of your problem. | |
| Oct 17, 2023 at 20:37 | vote | accept | RudyJD | ||
| Oct 17, 2023 at 20:28 | answer | added | Professor Sushing | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 17, 2023 at 20:08 | comment | added | Thomas | Not sure whether it solves your problem, but the correct transformation for the time should be $t_1=\gamma (t_1'+\frac{vx_1'}{c^2}) $ | |
| Oct 17, 2023 at 20:06 | history | edited | RudyJD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 17, 2023 at 19:52 | comment | added | RudyJD | @WillO I'm not sure what you mean - its just space between the two. But that should also be dilated in this instance. | |
| Oct 17, 2023 at 19:49 | comment | added | WillO | @RudyJD : what is that the length of? | |
| Oct 17, 2023 at 19:36 | comment | added | RudyJD | @WillO I measuring the distance between the photon and the rocket. | |
| Oct 17, 2023 at 19:35 | history | edited | RudyJD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 17, 2023 at 19:29 | comment | added | WillO | "If we apply length contraction .... " What are you measuring the length of? | |
| Oct 17, 2023 at 19:04 | comment | added | Ghoster | Apologies if this has terrible formatting, I'm writing from a mobile device. It does. Mobile devices are perfectly capable of writing MathJax. I do it all the time. | |
| Oct 17, 2023 at 18:57 | history | asked | RudyJD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |