Imagine there are 2 digital count up timers, A and B, separated by 100 light days in the same frame of reference. There is a person at each timer. Both timers are turned on at the same time (this could be done via a signal at a point C which is the same distance away from both A and B). At this point, a person at A will see the timer at B being 100 days less than the timer at A (due to the time light takes to travel from A to B). Vice versa for a person at B.

corniness9a

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2022-09-05

Imagine there are 2 digital count up timers, A and B, separated by 100 light days in the same frame of reference. There is a person at each timer. Both timers are turned on at the same time (this could be done via a signal at a point C which is the same distance away from both A and B).
At this point, a person at A will see the timer at B being 100 days less than the timer at A (due to the time light takes to travel from A to B). Vice versa for a person at B.

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recreerefr

recreerefr

Beginner2022-09-06Added 7 answers

You have to realize is that in relativity, the time that an observer sees something happen - that is, the time at which the light signal of the event reaches the observer - is not the time at which it actually happened. If you're going to talk about these relativistic effects like time dilation, you have to correct for the time it takes light signals to travel, or only compare events (e.g. timer readings) which happen at the same location in space and at the same time.
Regarding your issues:
As observed by B, the ship does take 101.01 days to get from A to B. Now, suppose a light signal is emitted from A when the ship passes it. That light signal takes 100 days to get to B, and the ship takes 1.01 days more than that. So B sees a delay of 1.01 days between the image of the ship arriving at A and the image of the ship arriving at B. But that doesn't mean the ship actually made it from A to B in 1.01 days.
The ship passes A when A's timer reads 1000 days, and B when B's timer reads 1101.01 days. I don't know where you're getting 1201.01 days from - that value doesn't show up anywhere in the analysis.

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