Re: Living in a world with high speeds
- From: "Dirk Van de moortel" <dirkvandemoortel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 17:56:48 GMT
<john_doe_ph_d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1117209684.645014.145250@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> We are told that relativity is hard to grasp because we live in a world
> where we travel at speeds << c. Supposedly, if speeds that are a
> significant fraction of c were common, then relativistic effects such
> as time dilation and length contraction would be intuitive to us.
>
> I am wondering, however, how such a world could function. For one
> thing, there's the well-known example (twin paradox) where, say, a
> parent would go on a space voyage and upon his return be younger than
> his children. Think of the social consequences of such effects.
>
> As a more mundane example, since everyone would have his or her own
> time, how could a group of people decide to have a meeting at a
> specific time? If the time is referenced to a particular frame,
> everyone would have to keep a detailed record of their motion (speeds,
> times, accelerations) in order to be able to calculate the
> corresponding time in their own frame of reference.
>
> Am I missing something, or would such a world be quite chaotic?
It would be quite dangerous.
But completely free of crackpots.
Dirk Vdm
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