@Aaron Stevens, I don't see why you had to change "any" to "a", but anyway, would you mind re-opening this question now that it's a valid question and has a very good answer below? — user12717722 hours ago
I guess I give off the impression that I have enough power on this site to reopen questions whenever I want to.
@AaronStevens The close/reopen voting system is very confusing to many new users that are used to forums where there are usually only unilateral powers to close and move threads.
That's the best way to do it. If you're curious about something then you'll naturally want to find out more about it. Conversely if you're not curious about something (and you don't have an exam on it) then just ignore it.
I have replicated the results of a few good books in nonlinear optics that I have found. Is it ok to present my 10-page results here in order to get some criticism? By reading the guidelines on what topics we should ask, I am borderline going to say yes. However I thought it would be more appropr...
heya guys, I've never understood why it makes sense intuitively that the second time is shorter
(so just to be clear; I don't care about time dilatation (or lorentz contraction), and I can follow the mathematical derivation)
but as I was rereading these gedanken experiments, I realised I never understood on an intuitive level why the time measured from the ground observer was shorter, from a classical point of view that is
(so assuming $\Delta x=\Delta\bar x$ for the moment)
