lifegazer said:
Big deal. Just because I haven't mentioned something doesn't mean that it isn't so. Gravity affects space and time. Deal with it.
No, it effects spacetime
Actually, as I said before, this isn't important to my philosophy. What's important is that the qualitative value of space and time, as perceived, is a variant.
Again, that's just because we have the illusion that time and space are seperate entities
You are clinging to this in the hope that by proving I was wrong about something that you don't have to address the meat of my argument. That's not true. And technically, since gravity does affect ones perception of space and time and since all bodies have different mass, I am correct: there are no two absolutely identical perceptions of space & time.
We will all have the same perception of spacetime though. All observers in all reference frames will agree on the outcome of the twin paradox.
The qualitative experience of space and time is a variant. How else could the twin paradox be explained if this were not the truth?
That's where einstein comes in. He shows that time does not slow down for one twin, but that they take different paths through spacetime.
If my experience of 10 years = your experience of 5 years, then clearly we have had different internal experiences of time.
I similar statement would be, if I traveled 10 miles to get to my destination, and you traveled 5 miles, then clearly we have had a different internal experience of distance, when in reality, I just took the scenic route.
It's not difficult to understand the situation when we are discussing distance alone, because we understand distance. It's when you discuss distance and time as one physical quantity that it takes the understanding of spacetime. The two situations are equivelent.
That's a complete lie. It's impossible to prove the existence of anything beyond the awareness of it = no proof of the reality of "out there".
If you have claimed to prove your philosophy, then you have proven it yourself, since your own awareness exists outside of my own awareness in your philosophy. The universe exists within god's awareness, which is also outside of my individual awareness.
Wakey wakey: if there's no universal time, then there's no time in the universe.
Just because time does not exist as many originally naively thought it did, does not mean that it does not exist. It just exists differently. Again, false dichotomy.