Re: A thought experiment gone wrong.

eval.apply@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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Yes, it's "gone wrong" in the initial concept.

For the train to be moving fast enough for time dilation to be important, it must move so fast that by the time the weight falls to the floor it will be many tens of thousands of miles away from earth. That is much larger than the earth's radius, and your implicit assumption that the earth's gravity is constant is nowhere near valid.


Tom Roberts
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