train problem

[fedra_moeykens]

I think in reality the ‘train experiment’ is difficult due to a number of reasons: First, eventually the train will go past the nuclei and not have the same relative speed anymore, it’s negative. Also if the speed is exactly relative to the nuclei, both nuclei could collide? Furthermore, if the speed is to close to the speed of light we could run into some relativity issues, so that the energy sent out from the train might not be seen as such from the other. All these are just some first taughts. Maybe one way to reproduce the speed is through a centrifugal chamber, this would however not eliminate the collision possibility, but it could put both nuclei in the same ‘room’ with one of them just having a slightly (not close to lightspeed at alll) higher radial velocity. To be honest, No clue if even this could/would work

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