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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
Repeatedly flying back and forth from JFK to Sydney to get from P1 to P2 will be slightly shorter than staying still, How does flying back and forth make the space-time path shorter?
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
in the topsy turvy geometry of space-time, a wavy path must be SHORTER than the straight line. Got a simple explanation for why this is the case?
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I guess I'll have to take your word for it.
But I still don't see how traveling in the spatial deminsions can make the spacetime distance between two points SHORTER.
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
So if you move around a lot, but arrive at Point B in space-time, then you had to have had spent less time doing it. That makes sense. Thanks randman!
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
That makes sense. Yes, Randman's idea does seem to make sense and sort of reproduces the desired effect. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with relativity and the twins "paradox". Multiplying 2 by 2 gives the correct answer 4, despite the question being "what do you get if you raise 2 to the power of 2?"...
I didn't understand him to be answering the actual "paradox". It was about how traveling in space can make the time distance shorter. As I understand it, if you're traveling between two points in spacetime, you have a time component and a space component. The total distance between the two points is the same whether you move in space or not (because they are the same points regardless). So therefore, if you don't move through space then all of the distance is from the time component. However, if you do move through space, then the time component of the total distance must be less because the total distance remains the same. That makes sense to me. Is it accurate? Edited by Catholic Scientist, : typo
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
How does coordinate time differ from time experienced?
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
Time experienced is given by the ds term So then it seems that it should be the same regardless of whether or not you travel though space.
The dt is coordinate time, and is merely a way of puting a chart or map down on space-time in order to make calculations So then it seems that having the difference in the space component of the distance makes it so dt is less than if there was no space component. But if experienced time, ds, is the same between the two spacetime coordinates regardless of the space component of the distance, then how can traveling through space affect the experienced time?
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
CS, in my attempt to understand it I'll try to answer you. Yeah, maybe we can get this one smoked down together.
Experienced time is the same *at* the 2 space-time coordinates, not between them. /nod
The affect of traveling is only relative to the one observing, to the one traveling the time hasn't been affected. Then why is his twin older than him?
In the attempt to connect the traveler with the observer, given that the observers time is the one that we are going by, time dilation comes into play. So, its not that the traveling really affects the time experienced, its only that time dilation occurs to the stationary twin's observation because the other one is moving?
I think... Don't hurt yourself
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
It is clear to me that time is not a "dimension". Time is what clocks measure, but perhaps time does not exist outside of the context of clocks. Did you read through this thread? There's some great explanations on how time really is a dimension and it is not just a result of clocks measuring.
1) What are the relative clock speeds, and 2) What _time_ is experienced by each clock. Maybe this post will help. Its #24 in this thread. Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence. Letting the reigns go to the unfolding is faith, faith, faith, faith. Science has failed our world. Science has failed our Mother Earth. -System of a Down, "Science" He who makes a beast out of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man.-Avenged Sevenfold, "Bat Country"
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
The time dilation would only exist if the clock for measuring time is at the observers end. The clock in the twins shuttle will not have slown down. Slown... Then why aren't the twins the same age?
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
The stationary twin is traveling through more space, and time. The twin that is moving is traveling through less space, and time. Wait... isn't it that: The stationary twin is traveling through Then we'd reach the same conclusion:
quote: because then, it make perfect sense to me
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
When you wrote:
quote: I read that as: "The stationary twin is traveling through more space and is traveling through more time." Which I thought was counter to the discussion about this:
Where traveling through more space results in traveling through less time (but that was about speed). Son Goku's equations yield a smaller distance in spacetime, which is what you were referring too so I got confused. Anyway, I think its cleared up for me now.
CS writes: because then, it make perfect sense to me That's all I ever aim to do. That very honorable. I do too, but that's not all
sometimes its just too much fun to rile up the liberals
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