Relativistic time dilation?

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Relativistic time dilation? Anonymous Fri Jan 20 20:48:29 2017 No.8617733 [Reply] [Original]

Somebody help me better understand this concept. The way I understand it, like in the light clock thought experiment, is that as you're moving a nanosecond's worth of light takes longer to reach you, but if you're moving at light speed through space- the light behind you would never reach you and look like a frozen picture, but what about the light of whatever's happening in from of you? Wouldn't it just hit you at an accelerated rate?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 03:05:03 2017 No.8618473 >>8617733 So, you need basically the entire concept explained from scratch so...youtube or wikipedia is your friend. Come back when you have some actual idea of what's going on.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 04:14:21 2017 No.8618536 >>8618473 This The main idea is that light speed is constant in every cordinate, and instead of the speed of light it's the "speed" of time thats changes in different cordinates.

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