Thread: What is time
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Old May 31, 2007, 12:59 am   #18 (permalink) (top)
nose
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ZNFYRH,

i don't know where you learnt physics... in fact i doubt you learnt it at all. Most of what you have said about relativity is plain wrong.

first,
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The time dilation effect is due to the fact that you are going so fast and have an increased mass dilation that space stretches around you.

You don't perceive the time dilation or mass dilation because they are relative and "not real" but with stretched space comes stretched time.
Stringing a whole bunch of scientific words together is a tool used by science fiction writers. The first sentence above makes no sense - I don't even know what to correct. Secondly, time dilation is a real phenomenon, not a trick of perception. Thirdly, it is no longer accepted that mass dilates, it is now considered that momentum dilates.

Athena, do a google search on the "twin paradox" and that quote about "time travel" won't seem so strange.
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