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Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
To me the theory of relativity sounds like utter non-sense. When you accelerate your car down the highway does your car get bigger, smaller or remain the same? I know my car stays the same!
Sometimes people need to think things out better. It makes little difference if we are talking about cars, shuttles or super-dooper space ships. If the space shuttle going to the moon acclerated to twice the speed it originally went, would it get bigger in volume or mass? I think not!!
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
To me the theory of relativity sounds like utter non-sense. When you accelerate your car down the highway does your car get bigger, smaller or remain the same? I know my car stays the same!
Sometimes people need to think things out better. It makes little difference if we are talking about cars, shuttles or super-dooper space ships. If the space shuttle going to the moon acclerated to twice the speed it originally went, would it get bigger in volume or mass? I think not!!
Just because I have a bachelors degree in computer science and someone has a doctorate degree in astrophysics does not mean they have good intentions and I am too stupid to understand anything.
Originally posted by 0pened
Then go and look into how time actually changes based on gravity etc.
Gravitational time dilation is caused due to gravitational influences on a body in motion changing its rate of velocity.
Velocity creates time. Gravity has no other connection to time other than being created through mass in motion from the frame of reference changing as the mass is in motion. Simple analogy: When you are in a photo art gallery you have to move in order to see the next frame on display. If you do not move then you will only see only the photo frame you are standing in front of. Not moving through the Universe is the same as time standing still, but everything would move past you to the point where nothing would be seen. Because the differential in rates of travel between you and everything else would be to great to be able to observe anything else. If everything came to a stand still in the universe what time occupied would become an immobile solid. So you see time is motion, and motion is time. Gravity is not time, and time is not gravity. extra DIV