Discover it yourself: map-based motion at any speed
This page is one step in a personal journey to discover 20th century methods for describing motion.
Excellent choice (according to our sources)! I doubt if most of you have taken the experimental route to arrive at this answer. If you have taken the experimental approach, you are probably not interested in what we have to say anyways! If you chose the theoretical approach, then of course it was only necessary to divide the metric equation by c^2 and then take the square-root. As expected, the pilot's clock runs slower than map-clocks when defining simultaneity in the context of our chosen map-frame of reference. This will always be true for travelers as long as distances and simultaneity are defined with respect to a non-traveling reference frame.
In this challenge, we introduced the concept of proper time as the time elapsed on the clocks of a traveler moving with respect to a chosen map-frame. The link to the next challenge in this series, to be placed HERE, considers the concept of proper velocity, which opens the door to simple quantification of accelerated motion at any speed. Check back soon to find out where discover-it-yourself goes next...
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