lifegazer said:
Speaking of insincerity.
"I only have to understand one small thing about relativity to link to a realisation that eventually links to The Mind as the creator of all perceived existence. And that thing is that the essential value of space and time, as perceived by men, is not absolute. I.e., there is no absolute meaning of time or space.
This is proven by the twin-paradox in that two men can compare experiences of time. One man can experience 10 years whilst the other may experience, say, 20 years, inbetween their present meeting and their previous meeting.
Clearly, when one experiences 10 years to the others 20, in the same period between meetings, then time is clearly not perceived in any absolute sense.
Any rational contemplation of relativity cannot fail to recognise that the second is in a state of perceived flux. I.e., the value of the second is unique to each individual. Same with the meter. And hence, the same with velocity, being meters/second.
Also, the motion of a body does distort the experience of time which that body shall have. Hence, I ask you to contemplate the reality of a situation whereby when you begin to move, the whole universe around you is distorted just for you!!! Think people, for heaven's sake. This alone is a proof that the universe dances to your tune, and not vice versa."
Which part of this is wrong. Tell me and tell them. Stop waffling.
I think that you have been given the explanation and will be given many more, you can believe what you like!
Part One
Imagine that the twins are walking across a floor. One twin can accelerate to the speed of light (well .9999999), but this floor does not represent the actual paths taken by the wtins but instead is a representation of the twins journey through time.
If we say that they both start in the same direction that will be sufficient (again this is a meta room) prior to the acceleration, for each step the earth twin takes, the space twin takes a similar step. they experience an equal time. But as the space twin accelerates something happens, the space twin still takes a step for each step that the earth twin takes but they are shorter steps.
Part Two:
Imagine now that we have the same situation except that the room will now have a way of representing space and time both. the space twin will say goodbye to the earth twin and hello when they start and finish thier journey.
This represents that paradox , the twins both start at the same point and end at the same point, but the space twin will arrive at the second point in time not having traversed an eqaul amount in the time dimension.
AAARRGGHH! Confusion reigns.
To make it work the floor of the room has to be come a cylinder or a sphere. The earth twin will walk on the surface of the floor, which still looks flat to him. The space twin will still walk on the surface of the floor which still looks flat to him.
AAAARRRGH! Confusion two, david zero.
The cool thing is that actualy the space twin takes a shorter path through time in relation ship to the eartyh twin. they both walk on the floor it looks flat to each of them, but when we compare the two flors, from a third frame of reference we will see that the floors are actualy curved and that when the space twin accelerates the curvature of his floor is less than the curvature of the floor of the earth twin.
So in essence the space twin cuts inside the curved floor of his twin and takes a shorter path , but still ends up on the same spot on the floor of the meta room after they are done accelerating. But from the non existant absolute frame of reference the space twin has cut a path through the space time sphere of the earth twin. They both start and end at the same point on the earth twins floor, but because of the lesser curvature of the space twins relative floor, he actualy traverses less distance through time, but arrives at the same point in spacetime as the aerth twin.
AAARRGGHH. Confusion set and match!
