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Now that's an interesting question that I have no idea how to answer... :)

Wow! This thread seems to be way off "topic"... Speaking of things off topic, here's a fun question that I didn't think warranted a post on this forum since it was 100% pure, fresh-squeezed speculation. If string theory speculates that the universe really has multiple hidden dimensions curled...

Perfect. Thanks!

Here: http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/ Sorry about that. It's an adaptation of the 1905 Einstein paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies. I followed the math through section 3 up until the derivation of the first equation in my post, but I can't remember why an assumption...

I'm on my first pass through special relativity and I can't remember the math that would take me from: (∂τ/∂x') + (ν/(c2-ν2))(∂τ/∂t) = 0 To τ = φ(ν)(t - (ν/(c2 - ν2))x') Any help would be appreciated. Also, sorry for the terrible format, but I haven't taken the time to figure out how to do...

Was that a no? :)

Hahaha that's awesome! Thanks for the quick responses!

Wow. That is pretty awesome stuff. Thanks for the link. I read through it, but I'm still a bit confused. I took a lot of undergraduate level advanced math classes (impressive, I know :p ), but it's been a loonnngggg time. I can understand the need to delineate "proper time" from time as defined...

I'm still very early on in my reading, so forgive me if this question isn't coherent. In the "historical introduction" section of the 1920 University of Calcutta translation of the original papers of Einstein and Minkowski available via the MIT online archive, mention is made of the fact that...

Good call. Thanks for the correction. I have a long way to go before I'll be able to effectively articulate what's going on in my head... :)

Great response. Thanks for taking the time to set me straight. :) I still can't help myself from seeing parallels between the two concepts, but I think I understand your explanation of why they're really nothing at all alike. At the quantum level it's simply impossible to measure both values...

I think I see what you mean. The position/velocity of the particle is actually determined by the measurement from a series of probabilities in the quantum world whereas an object's position and velocity on large scales... Well I'm struggling to put words to my understanding, but I think I get...

As an "advanced taster" (fancy, right?) at my brewery, I get to "taste" all the beers out of aging before they're transferred to product release tanks and again before they're packaged. I've always thought I could tell the difference between a sample straight from a tank and a sample of that...

I'm still pretty much a virgin when it comes to the serious study of physics, so I apologize if this question is a bit ridiculous. Is the lack of specificity of velocity and position according to the uncertainty principle somehow related to the lack of meaning of velocity without an independent...

Thanks for the response in total and especially the book recommendation. I have a lot of reading to do if I'm ever really going to understand this stuff. :)