Recent content by GrantSB

Thank you all. I will read the referenced paper (on the long shot that I can make some sense of it :) ) and scratch my chin a bit. One final question: Is the forshortening of distance you have described the Lorentz contraction? I had always interpreted this as a characteristic of just the...

Thank you all for interpreting the spaceship as already being at speed. This is just a thought problem, so I chose to ignore the crushing G forces of getting to this velocity in under a year. As for 'instantly', I never said instantly, I said constantly (i.e. he is looking forward). As he...

And what would he percieve the distance to Alpha Centauri to be at the outset of his trip?

Please ignore the ignorance of my questions. I am trying to understand. So what you are saying is that when the spaceship leaves Earth, at the speed I described earlier, then the 1400 beacons will appear to be much closer together than 1 light day apart. I guess similarly, Alpha Centauri will...

Ok, let me present this as a thought problem. Let's assume the distance to Alpha Centauri is 4 light years, and we know the path that a spaceship will take. In advance of the trip we place one beacon every light-day along the path, some 1400 in total. A ship traveling at .01 C would pass one...

I agree with all the comments made, and used relativistic in the way it is described. My intereest is what the observer sees if he passes close to a "stationary" object, or at least stationary in our frame of reference. If the observer is travellingat .95 C (say) then there will be a...

I have seen thought problems with an observer on a train or in a station, etc., but I have not seen ones with the observer traveling at relativistic speeds. It seems to me that at sufficient speed he would observe himself exceeding the speed of light due to the slowing of time. This seems like...

Here is the picture of my apparatus.

As I mentioned in my post, I do have a line of reasoning that would have predictive value, but as it is predicated on the proposition that space is a medium like air, I thought I would try to address this first.

For this question, I don't want to explore what "space" is (quantum chaos or otherwise), or whether it has mass, etc. Instead, I just want to explore if it qualifies as a medium, like air or water. I have a line of reasoning I want to explore, but as it is based on "space" being considered a...