Do you mean that it's impossible for there to be a single time in which all events and all things have a place, or that it's impossible to know that such a thing exists, and that it is necessary to avoid reference to it, if we are to speak with scientific precision? I had thought that you and...
Thank you all for your help! I think that I'm starting to get it, but I'll try to re-state my understanding now in my own words, just to see if any errors are still left over.
It sounds like the Special Theory is saying that one observer might see one sequence of events, while another observer...
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I've been studying the Special Theory of Relativity for a little while on my own, and I've had some difficulty understanding exactly what it is saying about the character of time. I would guess that these are very similar to the sorts of conceptual difficulties that a lot of...