Hey I've been pondering this article for a little while now and my friends and I have come up with a question.
Say we have two people, Bob and Jane. Bob and Jane blink at similar rates when they are standing next to one another. Both Bob and Jane have the accurate watches described in this article.
Bob then takes a trip to space traveling near the speed of light. Right when he takes off a laser initiates both stopwatches (one on bob's wrist and one on jane's). At some time (...), from an equidistant point to both Bob and Jane a light originates and then stops both Bob's and Jane's wrist watches. Btw, both Bob and Jane have been blinking the whole time their watches have been running.
The questions:
Upon stopping the watches:
1. Do Bob and Jane see a different amount of time passed on their stopwatches? (most of us are not in contention about this one)
2. Have Bob and Jane blinked the same number of times?
Hey I've been pondering this article for a little while now and my friends and I have come up with a question.
Say we have two people, Bob and Jane. Bob and Jane blink at similar rates when they are standing next to one another. Both Bob and Jane have the accurate watches described in this article.
Bob then takes a trip to space traveling near the speed of light. Right when he takes off a laser initiates both stopwatches (one on bob's wrist and one on jane's). At some time (...), from an equidistant point to both Bob and Jane a light originates and then stops both Bob's and Jane's wrist watches. Btw, both Bob and Jane have been blinking the whole time their watches have been running.
The questions:
Upon stopping the watches:
1. Do Bob and Jane see a different amount of time passed on their stopwatches? (most of us are not in contention about this one)
2. Have Bob and Jane blinked the same number of times?
Say we have two people, Bob and Jane. Bob and Jane blink at similar rates when they are standing next to one another. Both Bob and Jane have the accurate watches described in this article.
Bob then takes a trip to space traveling near the speed of light. Right when he takes off a laser initiates both stopwatches (one on bob's wrist and one on jane's). At some time (...), from an equidistant point to both Bob and Jane a light originates and then stops both Bob's and Jane's wrist watches. Btw, both Bob and Jane have been blinking the whole time their watches have been running.
The questions:
Upon stopping the watches:
1. Do Bob and Jane see a different amount of time passed on their stopwatches? (most of us are not in contention about this one)
2. Have Bob and Jane blinked the same number of times?