> Behalf Of Kevin Street > Sent: Friday, 19 August 2005 6:04 PM > To: 'Killer Bs Discussion' > Subject: RE: Physics question > > Warren Ockrassa wrote: > > IIRC current models for spacetime hold that the maximum velocity you > > can have is lightspeed. As you accelerate along the space dimension, > > your motion in time slows; if you're fully at rest, your motion through > > time is at lightspeed. > > > > Yikes. > > Yikes squared! ;-) But I'm a bit mystified here, how can time have a > speed? > Isn't it as relative as momentum? I'm not sure how you can measure the > passage of time somewhere else, except by comparing it to your own > reference > frame. > > Kevin Street
Ah, now there is the rub.. See, when people fly away from earth say, and go fast, time slows down relative to us. And we are moving relative to other places in the universe, so time is presumably going faster or slower in said places. I was wondering if there are places where time is going, relatively, slower than it is here, and this made me wonder, is their like a maximum or minimum speed of time, and where would it occur. The question of having zero momentum reminded me of thinking about this. Andrew _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
