> > > > 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
Light having a constant speed.. no matter how and where you are going, but time seems not too. A thought experiment. I guess it would help if I had some idea of what I was talking about. Where is Erik when you need him? Andrew _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
