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You are travelling 60km/h in a car and you are thrown a minty
How fast is the driver going compared to you, the passenger?
0 km/h
How fast are you going for a stationary pedestrian?
60km/h
A car behind you is moving at 80km/h. How fast are you for them? Them
for you?
-20km/h and 20km/h
Draw the minties path as seen by the pedestrian
Thought experiment 1
Thought experiment 2
A mans son blasts off and goes for a galaxy wide cruise, travelling at
about 0.8c
The dad is 50 and son is 25, and dad thinks hes been gone for 20 years.
Dad now looks every day of 70, how old does the child look?
It has been 20 years on earth
Which frame is stationary? The dads
Which frame is moving? The sons
If c is c is c
If c does not change, and time can stretch this means | v=s/t |
Lv = Lo 1v 2 / c 2
Lv=6.5 \|1 (0.72/12)
= 4.7
tv = 16 to = 2.2
a brave coloniser blasts off in the year 2083 & returns in 2095 averaging
at 0.6c
How much older are the baggage loaders?
12 years
How much older are the colonisers?