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Re: [Phys-l] how to explain relativity

I believe that it would be a fair gedanken experiment to have a long enough string of video cameras at rest in the earth frame and synched in the earth frame to pin down the result.

Each rocket would have a visible clock, 'v' and 'a' meter for us to watch.


At 8:26 AM -0500 6/17/10, William Maddox wrote:
From: WC Maddox

Here is another way of stating the issue: " Since they have the* same*
*proper* accelerations their speeds should be equal at all times
(relative to Earth frame) so they should stay a constant distance apart
(in Earth frame). But after a time they will acquire a large velocity so
the distance between them (and rope?) should suffer Lorentz contraction
(in Earth frame). Which is it?"
This is from a reference in Wikipedia article.