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Professionals prefer to work with abstract diagrams instead of trains, cars and flagpoles. On an overlay I drew the time and space axes of the train and the car worlds. Here only the diagram. Here the diagram flipt over vertically. It is standard to read a diagram from bottom up! This is a Minkowski diagram. The light path is always at 45°. That's all folks! If you stuck with me until this page, there is only one more thing to say: ... |
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- Introduction
- Relativity for Dummies
- 4D Spacetime Block Universe
- Reciprocal time dilation
- Reciprocal length contraction
- Lengths do not 'appear' contracted!
- Measuring the contracted train
- Constant light speed
- Where is the bullet?
- Train experiment
- Slower and shorter - case study
- Minkowski vs Loedel
- Spacetime video
- Further reading