Timeline for Does a clock at the rear end of a train is ticking faster than a clock at the front end of a train?
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| Oct 29 at 12:49 | answer | added | Solomon Slow | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 29 at 12:13 | comment | added | Jon Custer | Normally I see the front of the train before I see the rear of the train (unless it is going backwards). | |
| Oct 29 at 8:51 | comment | added | Professor Sushing | If the clocks were ticking at different rates, then over time the discrepancy between them would increase. That means that if you had, say, five identical trains pass you at the same speed, and each train had been running for a different amount of time, their front and rear clocks would all be out of synch by different amounts. | |
| Oct 29 at 5:45 | comment | added | Amit | Related: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/659116/… | |
| Oct 29 at 5:25 | comment | added | Sten | Note that the answers assume constant speed. If the train is accelerating or decelerating, then one clock ticks faster than the other. | |
| Oct 29 at 3:52 | comment | added | RC_23 | They are ticking at the same rate, but one is behind the other (from the ground-based perspective) | |
| Oct 29 at 3:42 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| Oct 29 at 3:04 | answer | added | Allure | timeline score: 3 | |
| S Oct 29 at 2:58 | answer | added | weeab00 | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Oct 29 at 2:58 | history | asked | weeab00 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |