Haha I just re-read my comment and realized that I no longer have a brain. Compeletly disregarding all of the typos and such, it really doesn't make much sense. In the thing with the Doppler Effect when I said "the light will be percieved differently than if you were both stationary", that's not true. Because light is constant. So no matter what, it's viewed the same. So that part was just me saying whatever bullshit made sense at the time. It DOES have to do with time-dilation, though, so that part was right.
Also, I don't really get the quote for "V vs. M". It proves hte point, but I don't really know what it all means.
*tears out hair*super_elmoFebruary 6 2007, 03:59:04 UTC
That's okay; I'm just glad I'm not the only one all that rambling doesn't make sense to. Like, what are "realms" of time? They can't be when two things move at the same speed, because if somebody throws a baseball at me from the bed of a moving pickup truck while I'm standing still, then we're moving at different speeds but the Doppler effect still works then. Is it just that the difference in speeds has to be really really big for there to be an effect? And with force being the derivative of momentum, I follow that, until you integrate it and the gamma shows up in the equation. Where did the gamma come from? (That is a gamma, right?) But even ignoring that, p approaches infinity as v approaches infinity, not c. I mean, what makes light so special that it's the standard for everything else's motion? (No, really, I'm confused about that too.) And then the rest of it gets a bit fuzzy too. And I think the thing with the light clock is bullshit, because it only looks like it's moving faster. Besides, that explanation only makes sense if
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Also, I don't really get the quote for "V vs. M". It proves hte point, but I don't really know what it all means.
Um. Sorry about that.
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