Very interesting about the space-time pythagorean relationship. So counterintuitive that the constant velocity line takes the longest time. thanks again for everyone's help!
Thanks for the very thorough response. that makes it a lot clearer. So this time dilation - how does that happen? (tongue in cheek) I guess that's what makes this so hard, is that an untrained mind is so reluctant to believe that two organisms could take different paths through space and...
Disregard the last post... I just read in another thread that the speed of light also depends on one's frame of reference. I'm giving up now. I think I wasn't meant to be a physicist :)
I think you both gave me credit for understanding more than I do in your responses. listenting to you both made me realize I get even less than I did. I did go back and look at the twin paradox and time dilation threads, and the wikipedia, though the wikipedia lost me quickly (and I should be...
Ok, great - that is what I kinda suspected. This is very helpful. Now my last follow-up (I hope) - this leads me to confusion about the next analogy, the boy who travels near light speed away from Earth and then back and is younger than his twin he left behind. If you could theoretically...
Ok, thanks. One of you mentioned signal time - I guess I have a follow-on then. Pretend you could somehow have magic walkie-talkies where nothing has to travel between them - they just communicate instantaneously - would it then seem like they are counting time at the same pace? And relating...
I'm an adult in the finance industry with no science background, and I'd like some help understanding relativity. I'm reading Walter Isaacson's biography of Einstein, and while I know it's not the point of the book, I can't get my head around the passages concerning relativity and it's really...