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Re: Where Time Is It?

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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.

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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? "G=EMC^2TreBert" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-22 15:59 -0800
  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? 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? Saul Levy <saullevy1@cox.net> - 2015-12-24 05:35 -0700
  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? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-24 12:32 -0800
        Re: Where Time Is It? Saul Levy <saullevy1@cox.net> - 2015-12-24 19:53 -0700
        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? Saul Levy <saullevy1@cox.net> - 2015-12-24 05:36 -0700
  Re: Where Time Is It? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-12-23 19:24 +1100

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