> Behalf Of Warren Ockrassa > > Brian Greene used an interesting visualization for this. Suppose you've > got a car that can travel 100 MPH, and you drive east 100 miles in it, > then north 100 miles, both at maximum velocity. To someone watching the > car traveling east, pacing it perhaps in a vehicle, the car appears to > be moving at 100 mph. > > Now suppose you drive the car *diagonally*, northeast, at 100 mph, but > that your eastbound observer remains on the main road and doesn't > follow the car diagonally. Pacing the vehicle, your observer will see > your car *appearing to be traveling slower than 100 mph* because rather > than having all its velocity being dumped into the eastward journey, > half its velocity will be northward. That is, while your car is still > going northeast at 100 mph, it is traveling along a "straight" eastward > axis at half that speed, and along a straight northward axis at, again, > half that speed. > > The same sort of thing happens as we move through spacetime. The faster > we move through space, the slower we move through time; we have one > maximum speed (actually one speed, period), which means that > acceleration in one direction translates into deceleration in another. > > Finally, time is not separate from space. It's intertwined. That's why > all this weird crap happens in the first place. >
Yes, and thus there are places, where time is going faster, relative to earth... eg places going slower (as we are going rather fast). And is there a minimum and maximum speed of time? Andrew _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
