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Equation from Visitor Event
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Dusk Wrote:It's not t to the 1st power either, lol. delta t prime in this case is the time it takes for light to trace a given path from the point of view of an observer moving at speed v.

It's not too hard to understand (I hope). Δt is the time it takes for light to travel from one arbitrary point to another arbitrary point and back. If you are not moving, and you have magic eyes that can actually follow the beam of light, you will see a straight line of movement. If, on the other hand, you were moving at velocity v while watching the same beam of light, you would see it move in a triangle. Since light moves at a constant speed, it can't somehow go faster to cover the same distance in the same amount of time. What happens instead is that time slows down for you and light traces the path at the same speed. Δt' (prime) is the amount of time that it takes for light to trace that new triangular path.

So it's like non-Euclidian physics. Thanks for the explanations
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Equation from Visitor Event - by larmie - 2010-09-30, 04:56 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by Sn1perJohnE - 2010-09-30, 05:06 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by 2147483647 - 2010-09-30, 08:46 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by FanaticRat - 2010-09-30, 09:19 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by Random_Overlord - 2010-09-30, 11:01 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by 2147483647 - 2010-09-30, 11:04 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by Dusk - 2010-09-30, 11:35 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by larmie - 2010-10-03, 04:56 AM
Equation from Visitor Event - by Russt - 2010-10-03, 02:39 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by Hazzy - 2010-10-03, 02:49 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by 2147483647 - 2010-10-03, 02:50 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by Dusk - 2010-10-03, 03:17 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by Manu - 2010-10-03, 03:28 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by Russt - 2010-10-03, 03:30 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by Dusk - 2010-10-03, 03:35 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by OB3LISK - 2010-10-03, 07:33 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by 2147483647 - 2010-10-03, 07:36 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by ThatHurts - 2010-10-03, 08:02 PM
Equation from Visitor Event - by OB3LISK - 2010-10-03, 08:29 PM

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