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Einstein’s Postulates; Gravity and Light

By Chris ⋅ January 17, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments

After reading a few chapters of Brooke’s book, “Time Travel in Einstein’s Universe,” I realized how much more his postulates made sense. It was hard for me to conceptualize light always traveling the speed of light. I now realized that within the object that is traveling, time itself slows down, causing the light to continue […]

Speed of light my butt

By Chris ⋅ December 13, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

So a metre(er) is defined as the length that light travels in 1/299792458 of a second… Which is pretty stupid, since we don’t even know if light is constant..
So in the flashlight scenario [flashlight moving backwards at c, light shining back, and apparently (according to the theory of relativity) it would be moving at light […]

On the Speed of Light

By Chris ⋅ December 8, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

So I was doing some research for my English paper, and I was reading a book about the theory of relativity. That got me thinking about Einstein’s “Riding on a ray of light” idea, and what if the ray of light was shining, being mounted on something moving? Would the speed of the light change? […]

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