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You're over complicating things. Actually and this is the point it is not the 'in reality' part that is problematic, it is the 'in one second' part. Your astr
by Stormbringer 16y ago
You're over complicating things. Actually and this is the point it is not the 'in reality' part that is problematic, it is the 'in one second' part.
Your astronaut toggling the lights in their spaceship is experiencing time at a wildly different rate than the 'stationary' observer. We can't just say "well duh, just look at the watch or clock" because those are also slowed down by exactly the amount that the astronaut is slowed down.
- tel 16y agoI was just hoping to drive home the relativity of frames of reference using something more concrete than time dilation. It's less of a stretch to think of time having different values to different observers once you've already given up the idea of absolute position.