NanakiXIII

I just want to ask something about that. The emitter and the mirror (left and right verticle lines) are inside the clock?

Also, where are the people standing in this diagram?

I guess so.

When you move towards it it moves faster, since the same amount of light bouncing off the click is heading your way, but in a shorter time since you're moving towards it.

Light is electromagnetic waves...

*Tosses the idea that he understood out of the window*

That makes sense. Thanks.

I didn't get one word of what you were just talking about.

Found it. Thanks.

What's that?

What would that look like on a oscilloscope (probably spelled that all wrong)?

If you look at the electromagnetic spectrum, mainly at the light part, white isn't included. Which is logical since white is all colours. But what frequency does white light have then?

I just read the thread you referred to. I think I understand now. It said something about the clocks going faster when moving towards them, and slower if moving away. Is this caused by the Doppler Effect?

It's lifespan? Or just a piece of time during which it exists?

I'm sorry, but what exactly is an object's time?

Could you explain this then:

time (at velocity v)

I read that as time moving at velocity v.

For some people, even quantum physics is intuitive.

I don't even know what it is.

I'll find that thread.

time (at velocity v) = time (at rest) * SQRT ( 1 - v^2/c^2)

Does time have a velocity?

Well with whatever science I've had in school so far then. When you approach it with intuition.

But I still don't understand how the Twin Paradox works.

If the person on earth received a message ever 2 hours, shouldn't he have received 6 messages by the time the second person turns around, and receive the other 6 while the other person was on the way back?

Isn't that correct?

Also, why exactly is the time doubled at 60% lightspeed? The article also said it was tripled at 80% lightspeed. Why? Wouldn't 50% and 67% make more sense?

I think I understand. It's all relative, nothing's absolute, right? And if you approached this with just regular logical science, it simply wouldn't work?

I know that much about time. Maybe if I call it aging. How does one object "age" slower than another when moving at high velocities?

As far as the clocks go: Remember, as each observer is concerned, the light clock next to him and any other method of time measuring are in perfect sync. And, each observer also has to see that the other set of light clock and time measuring device are in sync with each other. (even though they won't be in sync with his.)

*confuzzled*

Yes, Nanaki == Red XIII

True. And I still don't understand Special Relativity.

I was taught multiplying and deviding in the order it states, then adding and substracting. Sorry.

(c+c)/(1+c*c/c*c) = 2c/2 = c

I can see the 2c but c*c/c*c is c^2, isn't it?

c*c=c^2

/c=c

*c=c^2

Yes, but why is it that you have to

add the velocities together, then divide them by ((the velocities multiplied together divided by the speed of light squared)+1)