I tried using days/dates instead of time symbols to see if that would improve things.
This is another extract from my notes:
……I can think of no good reason to assume that Midge’s perception of the order of days, or dates, would be different from Jim’s. The simplest scenario would be to assume that t0 and T0 were both Monday 10th, and that Jim and Midge experience the days and dates as running in the same direction. Diagram 2 shows how this would look. I have retained the use of the lower case for “normal” time and capitals for “reversed” time, in our frame of reference.
Diagram 2(After Nahin’s Figure 9)
Earlier.................Jim (normal time)..........Later
m.10th......t.11th......w.12th........th.13th.......f.14th
F.14th......Th.13th.....W.12th........T.11th.........M.10th
LATER.............MIDGE (reversed time)........EARLIER
We now have to ask whether Jim and Midge could communicate if the days they were experiencing were in fact different. If Jim’s message was displayed on Friday 14th, would Midge be able to see it on Monday 10th? Would Wednesday 12th actually be the only day on which they could have any chance of communicating? And, if so, what would be the length of time for which they were able to communicate?
Last edited by Bill S.; 02/25/11 06:50 PM.
