I think I understand it now, I was thinking of simultaneity as something more complex that what it actually is. As far as I can see now, an observer who is getting closer or further from the location of an event sees that event earlier or later than what he would expect, so he thinks that it...
Mmmm, that breaks every understanding I had about simultaneity :((
I'll add some more events to clarify everything and make it closer to the typical basic simultaneity scenario. I make t1 = t2 = t3 = 0, so the patrolman starts looking when the crime light arrives the stationary police in Y...
While someone gives you a batter answer, as I'm also a beginner, you can check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox"
Basically both observers see that the other is ageing less, but if the astronaut is to return to the same place he will have to change of reference frame, and in that...
Exactly. But still if he accounts for the delay for light speed, his "now" for the location in X is the past for someone in the S reference frame by the factor of desynchronization v*L/(c^2), so he could be seeing something that happened before the crime instant. I mean, the things he sees in X...
Hi, I've been reading some literature on Special Relativity, and even if I think I have more or less understood the relativity of simultaneity, some of its consequences (in the way I have understood it) appear too surprising to me. The problem is similar to the Andromeda Paradox, but seems even...