Thank you Doug dont read it just look at the pictures
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Thank you Starcrazzy for your interest and input
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Well if it is so simple to explain and you have the text book in front of you I sure would appreciate being shown what the heck I have not taken into account
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I have looked at the travelling clock experiments I do not think a couple of nano seconds offers conclusive proof, I can not quote to you the % variation upon which this conclusion is draw but it is unsatisfyingly minute, the other examples of experimental observation relates to estimating the time associated with a "dieing" subatomic particle whose lives are extrodinaryily short and again I feel a rather a dubious conclusion
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The reason why I have done this is to try and understand how playing these mind games (I refer to the mind exercises like the train and the platform stuff) the contructers of the formulas arrived at them.
To me I have related things in such a way that I thought there could be no doubt that we are dealing with perception not reality.
My inclusion of the following was to draw attention to that aspect..
Two years and one hundred fifty and one half days ( .42927 of a day exactly) after Day zero a transmission is received from SS2 passing S5 showing a photo of their clock reading one year zero days zero seconds.
(Someone points out the crew must be getting younger but they are reminded that the image received was sent one year and one hundred and fifty and one half days ago and that the SS2 would in fact be half way between S5 and S6. by now.
Now that is perception, sure the clocks would appear to be slower but that is simply because of the increasing distance..if you look at what is going on on board and what the observers see of that moment and how long it is before they get to see it... well there is no need to assert clocks run slow to not leave the observer with that impression.
I found the only use of the space time geometry was to calculate the time the transmissions took to travell to O1 from each ship.
Can you see why I conclude it is a matter of observation by the course I have followed? I can not find another conclusion than the one I have come to.. again thanks for your interest and input and if you can see the specific flaw in my approach please let me know.
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