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Re: [Phys-L] another DIY relativity experiment



David,
Please let me tax your patience with this stupidity which is boggling my mind:
The analysis says that to an accelerating space ship there is a stopped photon at z = -c^2/g. To the inertial observer K' this is a photon moving at v' = ct' - c^2/g.

Did the space ship's acceleration bring this photon into existence, or would the inertial observer have experienced this photon even without the accelerating space ship?

Bob Sciamanda
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (Em)
treborsci@verizon.net
www.sciamanda.com