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EmilMasback
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Hi everyone. I rediscovered a question I caught in High-school that I never encountered a answer to.
Given a spaceship going back and forth into space, during it's travel it accelerate close to c relative to earth. At an appropriate distance it breaks and returns in a similar fashion. My understanding of what would be experienced is that the equipment and/or passengers on the ship would have their net-sum of elapsed time greatly reduced compared to earth-time.
The issue arrives as I can't, from the general theory discern the ship moving from everything else in the system moving. In short, does the acceleration the ship experiences cause the relative shortage of time or is there some other indicator to whom is subject to the relative speed.
in other words, were in lies the difference between moving the ship and moving the system but not the ship.
Thanks for any insights
//Emil
Given a spaceship going back and forth into space, during it's travel it accelerate close to c relative to earth. At an appropriate distance it breaks and returns in a similar fashion. My understanding of what would be experienced is that the equipment and/or passengers on the ship would have their net-sum of elapsed time greatly reduced compared to earth-time.
The issue arrives as I can't, from the general theory discern the ship moving from everything else in the system moving. In short, does the acceleration the ship experiences cause the relative shortage of time or is there some other indicator to whom is subject to the relative speed.
in other words, were in lies the difference between moving the ship and moving the system but not the ship.
Thanks for any insights
//Emil