In essence, you're saying that the light trades some of its downward velocity for horizontal velocity? Also, it's horizontal velocity is such that it is equivalent to the speed of the craft, and that is because the craft was moving at a certain speed when it was fired? (This is all from the...
I like this explanation, but in my head I am picturing a nozzle where the light came from pointing downwards. I feel that if I looked at the same nozzle from outside the airplane passing by that it would still be point downwards, which begs the question: how did the light come out at an angle?
Granted,but from the Earth's frame of reference, when the plane is accelerating, does the light also appear to accelerate? That seems bizarre, because I thought the speed of light is constant.
I understand there is some fundamental truth I am overlooking here, is it that the "speed limits" and...
So my uncle recently asked me about a phenomenon that I have been unable to explain, but there that there must surely be a good answer for.
A light clock is being observed on an airplane, with the light bouncing back and fourth between the plates of clock. The plates of the clock have the...