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Thanks for your reply Dale. I guess by "reality" I mean a point of view that isn't affected by any forces(anything that "dilates time"). A good example is to try looking at relativity from the point of view of light(ignore gravity for now). If an object is moving at 299,999,999 m/s, from...

[This was moved from a thread in Philosophy Forum. -MIH] ..an example that is commonly used in physics and my response for it. Is light actually passing him at 300,000,000 m/s? I would say no. Let's say he starts moving at 299,999,999 m/s. This will slow down thinking, perception...

True that.

Let's look at the two concepts that we're defining, one concept is even being used to define the other. Standard distance = meter. Standard time = second. Meter = Distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 seconds. Second = Duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation...

I don't understand how it's meaningless to say time doesn't exist. Time=!Distance, so the comparison's aren't equal. Distance has physical qualities that can be seen, time is just a convenient invisible solution to a problem. Everything your saying is only from human perspective. Yes we need...

Section 2, Effect #2 I think is the weirdest. But it still has an explanation. At those speeds, even though the person is next to you, you are seeing a delayed version of the clock. I would theorize that if they decelerated at the same rate and stopped at the same time, they would see the...

But if your going 60MPH I doubt it's affecting "time" in any meaningful way, meaning all it is is your perception, which doesn't really matter in the bigger picture.

I don't see how this example directly applies to what we're talking about. Let me rewrite the example from before. Imagine there is a sun and two completely identical planets, in different orbits. Say Planet1, Planet2. Let's say Planet1 feels a large pull from the gravity of the sun and its...

How was time changed? When you say "time was changed" what you really mean is that their rate of change was slowed/sped up. If one plane had its rate of changed slowed, and one had it increased that wouldn't necessarily mean "time" has changed. It can mean that they aged faster/slower...

This doesn't really explain anything. The Universe isn't even close to a movie :D Plus you can rewind movies. ? This only specific to cognitive beings though. So he didn't actually travel into the future, the speed he was going at just slowed down any change. If I froze myself and...

I think this is an overused, oversimplified explanation for relativity. To the observer and the people in the planes, they took off and landed in the same amount of time. Just because the clocks are off does not mean that somehow "time" was changed for them. Think about how time is being...

Aren't the ordered sequences of events going to happen even if we don't measure them (with time)? Would they somehow not happen?

Probably not, but not in any perceivable amount. Yes I understand. There are lots of things relative to us however, we have Earth's Gravity, the Moon's the Sun's, etc but that does not stop us from using mathematics and logic to derive "standards" that seem to fit. Agreed. Why is...

I don't understand why we need time in order to observe events in an ordered sequence. If we didn't have time in the way we think of it now, how would the events be observed? Would they somehow be different? Would they not occur in the order they do now? I understand we need time to help us...

Actually I should take this back. Distance exists if it isn't measured, I guess the only similarity is that it is measuring something relative to something else. E.g. we measure distance by using the meter standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre the same way we measure time using an atomic...