Special Relativity: The Consequences
Proper Time
- Time for an object is measured in the reference frame where the object is at rest is called the proper time interval, ?Tproper .
Space and Time differences
- ?Timproper = ? ?Tproper ? = 1 / sqrt ( 1 - (v / c)2 )
- Lparallel(moving) = Lparallel (rest) /??
- Lperpendicular(moving) = Lperpendicular (rest)t)
Nature’s speed limit
- Information cannot travel faster than the speed of light.
- Enforced by increase in relativistic mass:
Mass and energy are related!