Let's say you are on a train, and you throw the ball to your friend, straight across, and he catches it.
Let's say the ball travels 1 meter to from you hand to his hand, and during the time the ball was in flight, the train also moved forward one meter.
We can assume for the sake of argument that the ball was neutrally buoyant and didn't rise or sink so traveled a straight path:
How far did the ball travel?
In the reference frame of an outside observer, sqrt(2) m.
In the reference frame of someone on the train, 1 m. At the same time, everything outside the train moved 1 m backwards.
In the reference frame of the ball, 0 m. At the same time everything inside the train moved 1 m to the side and everything outside the train moved sqrt(2) m backwards and to the side.
The same applies to light but you can no longer use Newtonian relativity/Galilean relativity due to the high velocities involved.
OK Thank you.
So if the earth is accelerating upward at 15,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 meters per second, and you shine a flashlight across a room at 300,000,000 m/s, how far does the light travel?
For that not to be a problem there obviously has to be aether which is the medium in which radio waves and light propagate and the aether has to be accelerating also at 9.8ms^2.
And I don't think we've even demonstrated aether except that it is the needed duct tape for UA.
I already did the cavendish experiment and I got a strange weak attraction between my lead weights. I gotta have some serious sense before I buy into UA.
Obviously the aether permiates vacuum, solids, liquids, gasses, so it's not contained by the earth, and yet the earth is pushing it up? or is it pushing the earth up? or pulling the earth up?
Am I legitimately wide-eyed here?