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Originally Posted by Zuts
A microsecond is an eternity (just ask my 3 gigahertz cpu) and easily measured which is why Bojan says the proof is on your gps...
Paul
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I was not trying to be cute
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what I was saying was.. I think I am seeing how they arrive at the math overview of the situation..that there are two theories to be considered, one adds a bit and one takes away..please believe me when I say that I believe differences in time no matter how insignificant from a human experience view of the Universe are absolutely important..
and given my recognition that I am probably hard to understand at times due to verbosity I am trying to state the position in my way hoping that if I am getting it wrong someone will be good enough to point out what I am missing
...which happens from time to time when some kind person like Bojan overlooks their frustration with my ignorance and helps me out showing me something that I need to know… and so I upgrade my ideas to fit a new understanding of a concept.
I lay awake for about three hours last night thinking this through... and it is not the first time... firstly I am never really sure what any theory really says sometimes and what it does not say.. folk express things differently and each expression of the same Idea can sound different... and at the end of every thought a little voice at the back asks me …” yes but what does that really mean...”
So is there a Doctor in the house... a condition where there is no delusion about the prospect of any reality being a delusion…it is not easy not to believe in anything and question everything.
The time dilation thing I think that is probably where I get the difficulty in understanding is the "twin paradox" ..
there is something there that seems "wrong" and I can not put my finger on it ..and until I settle whatever it is confusing me I will go around and around until I accept the idea or can overthrow it... not for any reason other than for my own understanding...
and ask that I not be grouped with all the crackpots out on the net... Once I though I was like them but they are usually just trying something to get recognition... I may have been similar once in appearance and direction but I finally realize that all I want is to understand personally and that is for me not others...so there will never be a book as they say…
I have an obsession with all this stuff..gravity mainly.. and it shows I know that.. but I find physics and particularly General relativity and Special relativity not easy to understand...its like that 3 shell game with the ball under one of the shells. every time I think I have it really worked out. and look under the shell the ball is under another... I don’t care so much where the ball is but I sure want to know how the guy moving the shell can make that ball appear under any shell he likes .......
alex