Re: The Fifth Dimension

From: Tom Potter (tdp_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 06/23/04


Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:21:40 +0800


"Leonard Pardin" <leoppard@MailAndNews.com> wrote in message
news:d746a243.0406221802.4d78bcd@posting.google.com...
> Relativity has inspired me. Before Relativity, I thought "time" was
> simply a comparison between two events. If I had a dog that kept
> jumping over a stick at regular intervals, I could compare other
> events to his actions. For example, it might take 30 jumps to toast
> my bread in the morning. I could get dressed for work in 256 jumps.
> And so on. Time, in my youth, was not touchable.
>
> But Einstein has forever disabused me of that foolishness. Now I
> know that time is a thing, something real, something that expands and
> contracts like silly putty. It is something that attaches to an event
> or a series of events and has a life of its own. It is the fourth
> dimension, another number to be added to the equation of all things in
> life.
>
> With that revelation enlightening my once moribund brain, I
> realized there was still another dimension that should be taken into
> consideration--color! Everything has color, and color can change just
> like all other tangible and measurable things. Color has heft, just
> like Einstein's empty space. It can be related to mass, velocity,
> force, energy, gravity, and light. Color travels at the speed of
> light, yet seems to stay attached to the mass until acted upon by an
> outside action. Objects moving relative to each other will appear to
> be of a different color depending on the frame of reference and the
> velocity.
>
> I'm working out the mathematics. But I have already solved one
> paradox found in relativity. Twins traveling in space away from each
> other do not age differently--they just change color.

Beautiful post!

Watch out for the Stepford physicists!

--
Tom Potter     http://home.earthlink.net/~tdp


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