Usually I can read enough of a concept to understand it, but Relativity itself is something that baffles me. Time slows down just because you're moving? I get that information from a single point appears to slow down as you move away from it. Yet here's what doesn't make sense to me:
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Indeed, if you put an atomic clock in an airplane and fly it around the world, it will end up with a slightly different time than an identical clock that remained at the airport.
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How can the time of flight for the clock on the plane be different from the time of flight for the clock on the ground, given that both went tick-tock for an identical length of time?
And doesn't this imply that photons may have an infinitesimally small lifetime if they were to stop moving?
Can anyone shed some light on this?
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Maybe I should just stick to software...
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