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Re: Where Time Is It?

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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> 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.


Let me put it this way...

If a 4th dimension in space existed, you would have to throw
out the idea of a inverse-square law out the window...

since a square has only has two dimensions...

you would need to change the law into..
an inverse-cube law.

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Where Time Is It? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-22 14:08 -0800
  Re: Where Time Is It? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-22 16:17 -0600
  Re: Where Time Is It? Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2015-12-22 23:39 +0100
  Re: Where Time Is It? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-22 22:27 -0800
    Re: Where Time Is It? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 08:09 +0100
      Re: Where Time Is It? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-22 23:36 -0800
        Re: Where Time Is It? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 08:43 +0100
        Re: Where Time Is It? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 08:50 +0100
        Re: Where Time Is It? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 08:57 +0100
          Re: Where Time Is It? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 05:24 -0500
            Re: Where Time Is It? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 12:31 +0100
              Re: Where Time Is It? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 07:00 -0500
                Re: Where Time Is It? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 13:11 +0100
                Re: Where Time Is It? dobri karagorgov <dobrikarate.gov@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 04:24 -0800
            Re: Where Time Is It? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-25 12:19 -0800
        Re: Where Time Is It? Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2015-12-23 12:21 +0100
      Re: Where Time Is It? Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2015-12-23 12:16 +0100
      Re: Where Time Is It? "kquirici@yahoo.com" <kquirici@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-23 03:50 -0800
        Re: Where Time Is It? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 13:05 +0100
  Re: Where Time Is It? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-22 22:54 -0800
    Re: Where Time Is It? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 08:14 +0100
    Re: Where Time Is It? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 08:25 +0100
      Re: Where Time Is It? Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2015-12-23 12:17 +0100
      Re: Where Time Is It? Waye Kitchens <wscom@complang.net> - 2015-12-24 15:48 +0000
        Re: Where Time Is It? wugi <brol@brol.be> - 2015-12-24 22:33 +0100
        Re: Where Time Is It? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 17:50 +0100
          Re: Where Time Is It? Waye Kitchens <wscom@complang.net> - 2015-12-27 19:05 +0000
            Re: Where Time Is It? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 23:50 +0100
          Re: Where Time Is It? Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2015-12-27 20:54 +0100
      Re: Where Time Is It? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-24 12:32 -0800
        Re: Where Time Is It? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-24 22:48 -0800
        Re: Where Time Is It? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 17:51 +0100
  Re: Where Time Is It? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-12-23 19:24 +1100
  Re: Where Time Is It? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 12:36 -0800
  Re: Where Time Is It? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 10:23 -0800

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