Re: Frame dependent distances in relativity?

Aha... there you go. Distances are frame dependant in SR.

Pretty lousy maps that would make lol,

But starngely enough, it works!

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But that not according to relativity because within relativity you can
not travel faster than 300 000 km/s measured from local frame, yet
within local frame no time passed while i traversed infinity and the
universe. Surely a paradox.
On the other side you could say that the distance actually frame
dependent and shrunk to zero while travelled at c. But that also would
seem at least akward.

This is all like the twin paradox.

In short within any consistent system two paths of equal length A<-B
B->A must have same distance to not be logical inconsistent.

That depends on how one defines "distance". In SR, "distance" is
defined diferently from your usual highschool concepts. In modern
physics, time and distance is basically what your instruments indicate.
It so happens that if earth measures L and measures the speed of A to
be v, then if A would attempt to measure, he will obtain L/gamma and v.
Thats what the instruments indicate.

Now, since the intruments idicate that, how can you say that distance
E->A = E<-A ?

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