On 12/14/2024 8:55 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:
No, there's an event of the front of the car exiting the garage and the event of the rear of the car entering the garage, two phenomena.On Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 9:09:01 PM UTC-7 Brent Meeker wrote: On 12/14/2024 7:46 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:I meant I hadn't considered the ordering you postulated as effecting simultaneity. By "fit", I always meant the ordering you described, _and_ that the paradox is alive and well under such ordering. Moreover, I don't see why in the car frame we can't have the phenomenon synchronized with the garage frame, so the observers see the same thing, at the same time, which IMO implies a paradox. A'sGThey can't see the same events at the same time because they are moving relative to one another and light has a finite velocity. BrentBut there's only one phenomenon to observe, from different points of view.
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