Any observer co-moving with the observed object cannot measure the object's contractionThis was in Wiki under experimental verification of the equation.Here is a clue, one has to interact with something to count it.
Yes, this equation says you cannot measure something if you travel faster than your measuring device. What this has to do with the speed of light? I have no idea, except that one cannot measure faster than the speed of light. Put this all in sample rate, it simplifies things, you are, after all, counting in integers. If you were not counting in integers, then the first person to do the experiment, some 100 years ago would still be out there, rattling off an infinite digit number.
Does this tell me that the object contracted? No, just tells me when my sample rate error is noticeable.
It turns out, that the proper length remains unchanged
Thank god for small miracles. I agree with special relativity, I just dunno what the big deal is. Matter did not go away, energy was conserved, no miracles, just a simple application of Nyquist theorem. And, at the end of the day, Nyquist is all you have unless you like infinite length integers.
Harry Nyquist (né Harry Theodor Nyqvist; /ˈnaɪkwɪst/, Swedish: [nʏːkvɪst]; February 7, 1889 – April 4, 1976) was an important contributor to communication theory.[1]
No comments:
Post a Comment