Being new on this site I've decided to post a question that has echoed through my head for a while now. If Einstein's Theory of Relativity literally claims that all actions and reactions are relative to the observer, then how do we as humans measure anything at all without being at any constant...
Einstein's theory of relativity strictly adheres to the observer. You will always get a different answer from clocks or potential Astronauts as to where the Event Horizon may be, how long it took to reach that point, if it is possible to orbit a Black Hole without being "sucked in" and so on. I...
Also, this Barn/Ladder theory (after some research) makes sense but again imposes that all things are affected by the spacetime continuum and we know that is not true any longer thanks to the Hadron Collider setup. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I know this is an older topic by now but if I were to accelerate myself (no ship of any kind) to [I]c and i were holding a timepiece would it no then just be constantly stopped until I slowed back down? Also, would it then want to "catch up" to my postion relative to the surrounding Universe...