Boy! Thanks for your responses! I will have to think through all of this carefully. I realize that it will be difficult for me grasp all of this due to my lack of mathematical background and to the Newtonian world view which was taught to me as reality; but, I will keep pushing ahead.
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Dilation & Contraction--First Post
Hello! I am a brand-new member here (please be gentle and basic).
I have been listening to a course on special relativity and general relativity—the lecturer is Dr. Richard Wolfson. I have no serious mathematical background but would like to have a much...