I added a precision hereafter, because my formulation "S' doesn't stop at vt" could have been wrongly understood by SRists. SR Story ________ The time LT t' = gamma(t - vx/c^2) can be written t' = t/gamma + [tau/gamma - gamma tau], where tau = (x-vt)/v Let's remember that x is the position of some event reltively to the origin of a frame S considered at rest wrt a frame S' moving at v, and that t is the time at which the event takes place, measured on a clock situated on S. According to SR (Cf. Daryl McCullough), a clock at event (x,t) that is at rest in S', synchronized with the rocket clock according to S' will show time t' = gamma (t - vx/c^2). This is an awkward interpretation of t'. The reality is much simpler: After a time t, S' is at a distance vt from S, so t' = t/gamma. SR wants to take x into account, so it considers that S' continues to move until x. Then t' = t/gamma + ((x-vt)/v)/gamma. But even SR knows that it had to deduct something from t', if it wants to keep t, the only relevant time, into account. As S' travelled the distance x-vt, the "something" is logically ((x-vt)/v)/gamma, thus one is left with t' = t/gamma. Of course, first adding then substracting the same value would be silly, so SR had to find another solution. No problem for SR, as it considers that when a man is killed by a bullet, the murderer is not necessarily guilty, because the man could as well have killed himself by running at, let's say 3000 km/h, against the resting bullet. Hence, the "something" is not ((x-vt)/v)/gamma (S' moves wrt S, the murderer killed the man), but ((x-vt)/v)*gamma (S moves wrt S', the victim killed himself). Logic, which imposes internal coherence in a formula (meaning here that either S' moves wrt S, *or*, not *and*, S moves wrt S') is pre-SRian. Brave "still" new SR world! Marcel Luttgens |
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