Recent content by bredmond812

Charlie G, thank you very much. I am grateful for your help and all the others who have reallly helped me. That does wonders for my understanding. Brandon

ok, I am sorry for the bad post location. i just didnt know if my conception of the issue was kinnd of borderline, so i put it somewhere where it may be less harmful to the more informed posts.

Hi, My name is Brandon, I am new here. My physics knowledge mostly comes from surfing the net, so I have a lot of gaps in my understanding. But i do love the stuff, and i try to stay open to it. Anyway, i know about dark energy and the expansion of the universe. and i guess the...

so why is the speed of light special? i mean einstein used it to produce this theory, so how did he incorporate its significance?

oh right, it slows down.. ok, so is that because it goes through space at a faster speed so the effects of time usually reserved for passing through that volume of space are negated? does it have to do with conservation of energy or something? I am confused. why does time move slower?

That sounds about right. the trouble is I don't have a complete understand of my problem, so it is hard for me to explain it better. I guess part of the problem comes from my readings that dark matter doesn't interact with the em radiation (no blackbody radiation, no luminescence) so it only...

ok, so i have watched tutorials on relativity, and other videos and such. looked at wikipedia but it has a lot of stuff i don't understand, and other places too. i could read through other posters questions, but I am not sure how to really phrase my question and so i don't know what to look...

thank you for your replies. i am familiar with most of what has been mentioned. I am not yet satisfied yet. I am not sure how to rephrase my question though, but i will try. So if i want to know how much is between me and the next town over, somebody would say, well what do you mean by how...

I have heard numbers like our Universe is 75% Dark energy, 25% Dark matter, and 5% baryonic matter or something. For my question, the numbers are irrevelant. My question is just what exactly is being measured? Brandon