I think I know where you are going wrong, Kitty.
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Originally posted by TCO
But I thought you said in the very beginning, that D was past A, when the IMing started. How can D be past A at that time. But then be at A also?
D is past A when IMing starts. THE FIRST IM GOES BACKWARDS IN TIME IN D's FRAME!!!!!
WHEN IM GETS TO B, D IS AT A IN HIS FRAME
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Originally posted by TCO
I think I know where you are going wrong, Kitty.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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This is either a great troll, or just sad.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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I ****ing posted diagrams for you. Jesus Christ.
I've worked over every part of the problem a half dozen times.
And yet you still refuse to budge from your initial position that an IM in one frame cannot be a backwards time transmission in another frame.Last edited by KrazyHorse; February 5, 2007, 19:12.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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It's sad, kitty. Not a troll. Although I'm unsurprised (and at this point amused) at the aggravation. I agree that I need to look and think more seriously about what you wrote. This does not come easy for me. I have zero background in this. Let me put some skull sweat against it, when I am less tired. M'kay?
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I think you need to start more basic.
You have two spaceships. One of them measures things in frame S. The other is moving with velocity in +x direction. Instantaneously at time t=0 (in both frames)they are coincident. This last bit is not necessary, but it makes things simpler.
The question SR seeks to answer is:
if S observes something happening at (t,x,y,z), where does S' observe it happening? i.e. what is (t',x',y',z')?
If we were galileo, we would say the following:
(t,x-vt,y,z)
The term x-vt is there because if an event happens at time t then S' has moved relative to S. This means that the event looks vt further to the left to S'. If the event was at large +ve x to S then it's at a smaller +ve x' to S'. If the event was at -ve x to S then it's at more -ve x' to S'
That's galilean relativity. The position in the direction of motion is relative. Nothing else is relative. Particularly the time component.
Unfortunately, it's wrong.
Instead, SR tells us that the answer should be:
(g(t-vx/c^2),g(x-vt),y,z)
Now let us conduct a couple of simple calculations.
Forget about A,B,C and D
At time t=t'=0, George is sitting still in his spaceship.
Matt comes speeding past him at velocity v relative to him in the +x direction
They pass each other, as I said, at t = t' = 0
At some point, whether it's before or after, light from some distant event gets to George. He plots back the time the light took to get to him, and says "Aha!!! That event happened some time after Matt and I passed each other"
He's feeling goofy, so he figures out where the event happened exactly. In his frame, it was:
(vd/c^2,d,0,0)
"What an odd coincidence", he thinks to himself. "There's no particular reason that any event should happen at a time which is such a precise combination of its distance from me, the velocity of Matt with respect to me, and the speed of light". Oh well.
Now, at some other point, Matt gets the light from the same event. He plots back where and when the light came from, and he gets an even more surprising answer.
What is that answer? To get it you must apply the Lorentz transform I taught you earlier.
y = z = 0
t = vd/c^2, x = d
So, the 4-vector of the event, in Matt's observation, is
(g(t-vd/c^2),g(x-vt),y,z) =
(g(vd/c^2-vd/c^2),g(d-v*vd/c^2),0,0) =
(g(0),gd(1-v^2/c^2),0,0) =
(0,d/g,0,0) because 1-v^2/c^2 = 1/g^2
So Matt says: "wow! That happened at the exact moment George and I passed each other!"
Who's right? Who's wrong?12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Not if a stargate acts like a wormhole.
And since it happened in Stargate (the true measure of physical possibility when it comes to these sorts of things) it musts be true!APOSTOLNIK BEANIE BERET BICORNE BIRETTA BOATER BONNET BOWLER CAP CAPOTAIN CHADOR COIF CORONET CROWN DO-RAG FEDORA FEZ GALERO HAIRNET HAT HEADSCARF HELMET HENNIN HIJAB HOOD KABUTO KERCHIEF KOLPIK KUFI MITRE MORTARBOARD PERUKE PICKELHAUBE SKULLCAP SOMBRERO SHTREIMEL STAHLHELM STETSON TIARA TOQUE TOUPEE TRICORN TRILBY TURBAN VISOR WIG YARMULKE ZUCCHETTO
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Originally posted by TCO
If it is all IMing maybe it's not a problem?12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Not if a stargate acts like a wormhole.
But to have a wormhole you would need "exotic matter".I'm not buying BtS until Firaxis impliments the "contiguous cultural border negates colony tax" concept.
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Originally posted by _BuRjaCi_
Wait, if,you could create a stable "movable" wormhole, you could create a time machine. I mean just put one end of it on a space ship that travels at near C speed, where time dialates.
But to have a wormhole you would need "exotic matter".APOSTOLNIK BEANIE BERET BICORNE BIRETTA BOATER BONNET BOWLER CAP CAPOTAIN CHADOR COIF CORONET CROWN DO-RAG FEDORA FEZ GALERO HAIRNET HAT HEADSCARF HELMET HENNIN HIJAB HOOD KABUTO KERCHIEF KOLPIK KUFI MITRE MORTARBOARD PERUKE PICKELHAUBE SKULLCAP SOMBRERO SHTREIMEL STAHLHELM STETSON TIARA TOQUE TOUPEE TRICORN TRILBY TURBAN VISOR WIG YARMULKE ZUCCHETTO
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