Re: Emission Theory and Einstein's Train Thought Experiment

On May 11, 7:51 pm, mpc755 <mpc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


It doesn't matter how fast the train is moving.

With Emission Theory, the Observers at M and M' will determine each
lightning strike event to have occurred at the same time.

So you can use emission theory on your imaginary train if that
works for you and we can use something else here in the real
world where we measure real moving emitters:

Classical Electromagnetism:
An intermediate level course
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/lectures/lectures.html

Visualizing Electricity and Magnetism at MIT
http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/light/index.htm

That way you won't have to study anything and we
won't have to wonder how nature works.

Sue...
.

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