Special Relativity

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Bernard Schaefferleft a comment

I had thought this way also. The movement parallel to your sight is complicated by the Doppler effect. It is necessary to have a movement with a zero relative velocity, that is, perpendicular to your sight. Then the Doppler effect is eliminated. Of course, after a while the movement becomes parallel. Therefore, the measurements have to be instantaneous when the moving mass is just before your eyes.

Hoter Shotleft a comment

AN INRODUCTION TO RELATIVITY Where the floor of a room meets two adjacent walls forms a Cartesian coordinate system. The coordinates are customarily labeled x,y,z. y | | |________ x / / / z Imagine two systems – both at rest – both having the x axis in common. You, the observer, are in one. In the other are a mass point, a rod and a clock. The velocity is zero. The mass point weighs one gram – the rod is one meter long, the clock is running at Greenwich (standard) time and the system is covering zero centimeters per second. The parameters of these items are called "proper" – proper time, proper mass, etc. Now the system attains a velocity directly away from you along the x axis and you make observations of the items. The measurements are called "parameters" At all times, the parameters of the items do not change – BUT YOUR OBSERVATION OF THEM DOES. That's an important point. As the velocity of the system becomes appreciable to that of light, you measure the parameters and find the following: The one gram mass is still one gram. The one meter rod now measures as considerably shorter. The clock is running slower And the system is traveling at n centimeters per second. Remember, These are only your measurements. The parameters in the observed system do not change You now notice there are two more parameters. Since there is motion, the mass has acquired kinetic energy and momentum. These DO exist in the observed frame. However, you notice the momentum and kinetic energy are much higher than called for according to the velocity you measure. Why is this so? After thinking about it for a while, you realize that you are making your measurements by the use of light – and that it takes time for the light to reach you. While the light records the information, the system is moving. We are all familiar with the movie of a fast moving subject blurring. Well basically the same thing happens here. The motion of the system distorts the measurements so the parameters come out as they do. That's why the distortions don't come up until the movement (velocity) is appreciable to that of light. Much of the mystique and misunderstanding of relativity is caused because people mistakenly believe that the distortions observed ACTUALLY OCCUR IN THE MOVING FRAME. We stressed earlier that is not so. The parameters in the moving frame do NOT change. It is only the observation of them that does. That means the clock never runs slow. That in turn means (in the Twin Paradox) the moving twin does not experience a slower time and age less than his earth brother. That means Einstein's Time dilation does not occur. There is an observed dilation of the moving clock running slow, but it is based on the Doppler effect 1. It is agreed by modern physicists that mass is velocity invariant – and the measurements confirmed this. That's because the transmission of light cannot distort mass as it can the length of the rod. As to the excess kinetic energy and momentum, it turns out that the velocity of the system measured is contracted also as was the rod. If we correct for the shortness of the rod and use that to correct the velocity, we get a higher velocity than the one observed. This is the actual velocity of the system – and the mass point. It will be found that the kinetic energy and the momentum are those of the mass at that higher velocity. So we see the parameters of the higher unseen velocity are found in the company of the lower observed velocity, i.e., the relative velocity. The higher unseen actual velocity is the Newtonian velocity. ____________________________ 1 Experiments with atomic clocks in satellites seem to verify Einstein's time dilation. But the situation is as follows: A clock circling the earth in a satellite is sending out signals to the earth. At all times the satellite (clock) is traveling tangentially to the signal receiver. By a strange coincidence, an emitter traveling tangentially to a receiver will produce a Doppler signal of the same value as Einstein's time dilation.

rebelofernandesleft a comment

2nd Postulate “The speed of light in vacuum is constant (c=+-300.000 Km/s) regardless of the velocity of the observer (and the source)”. Well, here he shows a total lack of sense. How is it possible that someone that has never been in another referential, nor has any measurement that confirms it, has this determination? This is not scientific, is pure determination. Until nowadays we don’t possess any measurement or verification, and it has been over a century. It is logical that Einstein should have taken some precautions. He should have admitted that it could be different. At least he should have considered: C_v = C_o/K Co = K / Cv and Vv = Vo / K It is logical that in the case of k is equal to 1 it would prove that Einstein was right. Let as analyze what is seen from our referential: (Cv tv )^2+(Vv to )^2 = (Cv to )^2 Yhe time bend. Space We now go to the same apply used reasoning for Einstein for the calculation of the bending of the space, taking care of to already established and also on the basis of the new premises. k = (1 - V^2/C^2)^0.5 and After all the space definitively not bend. (Einstein when considering the constant speeds, in any referential did not leave the proper referential. Another referential was not in game any, to be valid for another referential; the speed had that to vary. The relativity of Einstein is the local equivalent of general relativity Thanks