It's not exactly a rigorous explanation, but I think it's a good memory aid. Once you realize that c is a 4D constant rather than a scalar speed, you can work out for yourself which way clock measurements are skewed from various points of view.
-- john, KE5FX > -----Original Message----- > From: time-nuts [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Didier > Juges > Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 11:20 AM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Einstein Special on PBS > > Wow. So elegantly simple explanation, thanks John! > > On November 27, 2015 2:54:51 PM CST, John Miles <[email protected]> wrote: > >So, here's how I finally grokked this stuff. c, the speed of light in > >a vacuum, is often spoken of as a "speed limit" that nothing can ever > >exceed. That's a bad way to put it, and people who have expressed it > >that way in popular science writing for 100 years should feel bad. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
