4 ms·
Yet from S62's perspective, we're the ones moving. It will be hard to imagine if you try to retain the concept of some universal clock. The important thing is
by neltnerb 6y ago
Yet from S62's perspective, we're the ones moving.
It will be hard to imagine if you try to retain the concept of some universal clock. The important thing is that if you actually traveled from one to the other that during your accelerations time would warp around you so as to perfectly make both sides local clocks correct.
- samus 6y agoFrom S62's perspective, _everyone_ is moving. They would infer that S62 is the oddball, and not the galaxy around them.
- neltnerb 6y agoSure, and knowing that they're the oddball doesn't mean their physics is any different locally. This is the core concept of special relativity from which the rest is derived, neither of us is special in how our environment behaves. Whether you're on the spaceship traveling at 0.99c relative to earth or "at rest" (both are actually at rest but hopefully you know what I mean) everything feels the same as long as you are not accelerating.
- vagab0nd 6y agoBut S62 is special because it's constantly accelerating very fast (going in orbit). And that makes it special and not equivalent to us. Twin paradox is very similar. It's an apparent paradox but not real.