Re: WAS EINSTEIN A DUNCE?

On Jan 31, 8:52 pm, David_wri...@xxxxxxxx (David Wright) wrote:
As I understood it, Einstein simply took the Michaelson Morely experiment at
its word, which most people were "too smart" to do. It does sound 'stupid':
that bodies flex and distort depending on their relative speeds and
distances. Perhaps only a fool would at first believe it.

I still uncomfortable with the theory myself: it makes the universe
impossible to imagine from multiple points of view


Hold a pencil in front of you such that you are looking at its length.
Now slowly rotate it. It looks like it is getting shorter, but it is
not.
Now picture Space-Time as an open Space-Time.

Again you have your pencil held in front of you, only this time you
rotate it such that it rotates across the dimension of Time. Again it
has not actually changed length, but its depth extending across Space
has now been reduced. So what's the big deal ?

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