But how does the same thing look from Alice's perspective? The light flashes go off, but while the light travels towards her, she's moving towards one of the light sources and away from the other, so that one path of the light is shorter and the other one is longer. So her perspective, the light flash from the front of the train arrives earlier than the one from the back. So she would say, "No, they did not happen at the same time." And now the important point is that this is relativity. Neither of them is right, and neither of them is wrong. They both have an equally valid perspective.
50
194 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
“There is something timeless about the information that makes up us and everything else in the Universe.”
“
Similar ideas to Did The Light Flashes Happen At The Same Time? No.
Some kinds of light make you more alert and more awake, and others have less of an effect:
The mental model of relativity states that everyone's outlook, viewpoint and perspective are different from ours.
The same situation is looked in different ways by people, and understanding these variations can help us toward a meaningful dialogue with them. We can diffuse any inherent ...
When thinking about a healthier lifestyle, which includes a healthier diet too, one can choose to be both 'plant-based' and vegan, as the two go hand-in-hand perfectly.
Moreover, once you have chosen one of them, you have all the chances to end up choosing also the second one, as they are ...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates