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Re: The Distant Revolving Astronaut: When Time Runs Backwards

From Sergio <invalid@invalid.com>
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Subject Re: The Distant Revolving Astronaut: When Time Runs Backwards
Date 2016-04-19 08:56 -0500
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On 4/18/2016 4:20 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
> The Distant Revolving Astronaut:  When Time Runs Backwards
>> http://physicsinsights.org/revolving_astronaut.html
>
>
>
>> Imagine a spaceship in orbit around a distant planet.  Imagine that
>> the Earth lies in the plane of the orbit.
>>
>> At one point in the orbit, the ship will be traveling directly toward
>> the Earth.  At that moment, in the momentarily comoving reference
>> frame of the ship, the Earth lies far ahead of the ship.  Since the
>> ship is moving toward Earth, that means that time on the Earth must
>> appear far ahead of "local" time on the planet below.  Looking at the
>> Lorentz transform, if ship's time is zero, and velocity is positive,
>> then Earth's velocity relative to the spaceship is negative, and
>> current time on Earth will be given by v*gamma*distance.  Again, the
>> clocks on Earth seem to the astronauts to be set far in the future.
>>
>> At another point in the orbit, the ship will be traveling directly
>> away from the Earth.  The sign on the velocity flips, and now it
>> seems to the astronauts that clocks on Earth are set far in the past,
>> as the Earth time is now given by -v*gamma*distance.
>

wrong.   math is wrong too
all you are talking about is relitive motion,
and that does not translate to Wormley's title of the post.

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The Distant Revolving Astronaut: When Time Runs Backwards Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-18 16:20 -0500
  Re: The Distant Revolving Astronaut: When Time Runs Backwards jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-04-18 21:46 +0000
  Re: The Distant Revolving Astronaut: When Time Runs Backwards Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-04-19 08:56 -0500
    Re: The Distant Revolving Astronaut: When Time Runs Backwards HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-04-19 07:13 -0700
      Re: The Distant Revolving Astronaut: When Time Runs Backwards benj <nobodyxx@gmail> - 2016-04-19 13:44 -0400
        Re: The Distant Revolving Astronaut: When Time Runs Backwards HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-04-19 11:00 -0700
          Re: The Distant Revolving Astronaut: When Time Runs Backwards benj <nobodyxx@gmail> - 2016-04-19 23:05 -0400
            Re: The Distant Revolving Astronaut: When Time Runs Backwards HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-04-20 04:04 -0700
              Re: The Distant Revolving Astronaut: When Time Runs Backwards benj <nobodyxx@gmail> - 2016-04-20 13:18 -0400
  Re: The Distant Revolving Astronaut: When Time Runs Backwards "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-04-19 09:37 -0700

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