Recent content by teo del fuego

Thanks so much for your reply. As much as I like Greene's books, I find anything he does on TV unwatchable. Even to my layperson's limited knowledge, I see him consistently over-dramatizing things like quantum weirdness and special relativity. I will approach his books with more skepticism...

your simple act of distinguishing between "see" and "calculate" was immensely helpful and answered a question I had pondered for a long time. Thank you.

Einstein noted that as we sit still on Earth in its frame of reference, we are, nevertheless, traveling through time at the speed of light. Source: Brian Greene's Fabric of the Cosmos. Is it correct to infer that Movement through space slows our movement through time? [Moderator's note...

Thanks to everyone for replying and bearing with me. I think I've synthesized the helpful replies and will try to answer the original question. The reason I was keen on an answer was to understand the mechanical causal link that would actually retard the aging process of the space bound twin...

This has been the most helpful of replies so far in that it makes the return trip integral to the frames of references and not just a practical dilemma of "how could we ever compare the clocks without doing so?" The Einstein online article wa I'll try, but I'm using a phone not a computer...

The addition of "-esque" to Copenhagen was a tip off that I knew the solution had nothing to do with QM. Rather, I was making an analogy. I'm not sure what the equations were about, except to demonstrate superior math skills. As I peck away on my iPhone keyboard creating affronts to the...

Okay, spent two hours last night and I believe that time dilation occurs with constant velocity and that acceleration /deceleration contributes to it, but I t occurs even without it. I humbly, respectfully, suggest, that you are on the wrong path by avoiding the question and saying it cannot be...

I have the same question as the original poster and it's one none of you have seemed to grasped. I'll restate it: ignoring acceleration, deceleration, and massive objects, all of which I understand cause time dilation, would there be any time dilation due solely to constant velocity. Please...