Re: The train and the light inside.


Spaceman wrote:
"Igor" <thoovler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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And when did you do your experiment that proved that they don't measure
the same speed c?

The problem is, how could they?
An outside observer could not measure
c for what an inside observer is measuring c for already.
the relative speeds are being ignored if such is true.

It seems that way to you, but I contend that the outside observer has a
faster time rate than has the train because the train is moving faster
than he is, so then the light must travel at c because of empirical
evidence, but the _distance_ the light travels is less for the
passenger than it is for the outside observer. To explain this
requires that we accept the fact that c is invariant (at least locally)
and so we cannot change c, we can only change the time rate accruing to
each observer in order to explain the fact that the light speed for
both observers is indeed c.

In my train experiment, a single photon particle falls to the floor
from a ceiling lamp, instead of moving horizontally. No matter,
though, since we cannot change c, it is time that varies.

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