Happy New Year!

Mark rang me on the afternoon of the 31st and asked if I wanted to come down and watch the new year in in London. As someone studying Physics, I am a strong believer in relativity. That is, that all time is relative to London. As we all know, the reason it takes so long to travel anywhere in space is because you are travelling away from London at such an alarming rate; by the time you’re at the moon it must be about GMT -364, and lets not even talk about the next galaxy. So for me, it seemed like a great idea to watch fireworks in our capital for the new year, and it was. I had a great time. There’s now pictures on facebook you can see if you feel so inclined.

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Comment by cathryn
2008-01-11 23:14:46

Question 4:
“An inertial reference frame, ‘London’, moves with velocity 0.62c along the positive x direction. In this frame a particle has a speed of 0.47c in the postive x’ direction. What is the velocity of the particle in the second reference frame, ‘rest of the world’?” (3 marks)

 
Comment by Gav
2008-02-17 17:20:23

Lorentz transformations anyone? :P

 
Comment by Gav
2008-02-17 17:27:10

Well, velocity transformations really. I make it 0.921c :P my frames might be dodgy though…

 
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