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Article #99Re: Station's clock with respect to the train
From: BURT
Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 17:35
Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 17:35
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On Apr 30, 9:13 pm, John Murphy <london.accommodation.homest...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 1 May, 03:08, BURT <macromi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > If the train watches the stations clock go slow then when does it have > > the time to age more? > > > Mitch Raemsch > > It never gets a chance to age comparatively, because by definition > neither 'clock' - nor the train, nor the station knows what the other > is doing, but it would not help if the train were to visit the station It is intirely possible for the station and the train to compare clocks while passing each other is it not? Mitch Raemsch > in some metrical sense, since that would entail either time gained by > the train or lost by the station and nor would it work the other way > around since it would seem to neither 'clock' that they had lost or > gained. > > All the same, demons are thought to be able to travel at light speed, > so could in principle produce a twin-dial clock, available to both > station and train, although it is unclear how that could be of help to > anyone other than demons themselves unless they could become an > interstellar ISP. And if they got a useful role, they might get free > from messing things up and win a few prizes here and there. > -- > Harbinger.
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