Re: Of what's become nondisclosure/taboo


> I think if we throw out our current ideas we can have a system where
> time is not sliceable, it just is. WE slice it to keep things
> organized in our minds, but if we let go of that then maybe time is
> not how we usually think of it.
> Einstein had an "observation" that I like: a man is on a train, a
> second man is standing on the road watching the train go by. If the
> man on the train starts walking the same way as the train is moving he
> appears to be moving faster than the train, when observed by the man
> on the ground. If however he walks the opposite way that the train is
> moving he appears to be going slower than the train, when observed by
> the man on the road. Is he in fact going faster than the train when
> going forward? Is he in fact going slower than the train when walking
> the other way? It all depends on your point of view or perspective.
> This was all from Einstein's thoughts about the speed of light and his
> ideas that it was an impenetrable barrier. There is new thought that
> maybe it is possible to go FTL, when viewed by someone not a part of
> the journey. The man on the train did not "feel" like he was going
> faster than the train, or slower depending on which way he was moving.
> But to the man on the road he WAS!


This is relativity in a nutshell. Think of one person _relative_ to
another. In the above statement you made, due to time dilation the man
at rest will not see the man on the train move, since his frame of
reference is moving so much slower in comparison to the man at rest.
Unfortunatley your analogy has been used quite a bit, mostly in the
form of two spacecraft relative to one another.
My question is why do so many people would like to just get rid of all
the hard gained knowledge we've learned over the centuries?

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