Friday, December 2, 2011

Could someone explain time dilation through the relativity of simultaneity please?

I heard that every result of special relativity can be explained through the relativity of simultaneity, but I can't get around to explaining time dilation on my own. Please could someone help me?|||Time dilation is the effect caused on the passing time felt by an object when its speed increases and approaches the speed of light. As the speed increases so does the time slow down and at the speed of light itself the time dilation has reached such a significant magnitude that it stops passing. Thus a photon of a beam of light occurs simultaneously everywhere, as far as it can tell!





Simultaneously means at the same time so its relativity for different speeding objects makes no sense.|||Time dilates as motion takes place .The faster the motion the less time the motion per unit distance takes place.The reverse is the slower motion and the more time it takes to travel.


When we observe a sound wave from far away it take longer(time dilation) than a sound wave at close proximity.

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