Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:32:45 -0600 Message-ID: <567C566A.7FB1@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 12:32:42 -0800 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.astronomy,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Where Time Is It? References: <5679C9C8.605E@ix.netcom.com> <567A452C.1EA9@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 44 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.239.141.5 X-Trace: sv3-htxn+JgAFJZLRv6rGv+WIEyUQdFo/RKkkq8l9fbmXFYPZG1XjCw+qVE+vQM2oIjnOvBmLifLBn40asA!u8uSCA9WXPi7+3nIAq4wvJLbOtxDxhYE1dunxbxoKyf9hhwy0IHEJ7ewGunQLUuJDyopqk7dSWsQ!7Rmfn7zvZw== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2209 X-Received-Bytes: 2321 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2859505212 Xref: csiph.com alt.astronomy:280214 sci.physics:541321 sci.physics.relativity:372712 rec.arts.sf.written:429868 Poutnik wrote: > > Dne 23/12/2015 v 07:54 The Starmaker napsal(a): > > > > > > > Now, > > why do others > > say > > Time > > is the 4th dimension... > > i have no idea. > > > > It's insanity. > > Imagine for now our world as a plane, > and time as the z axis. > > Imagine our passing time like this plane flying > upward along the time axis. > > This was our experience with space and time until SR. > > But than it was realized that if you are moving > wrt some other objects, you and them do not live > at the same space plane anymore, > but your planes are mutually tilted wrt time axis. > > This causes relativity of simultaneity, > time dilation and length contraction. > > The space and the time are not independent anymore, > but mixed together, determining each other > in space-time, > where time is recalculated to length by c factor > as another dimension. > > -- > Poutnik ( the Czech word for a wanderer ) > > Knowledge makes great men humble, but small men arrogant. I'm not interested in mathematical dimensional theories.