Time to end all misconceptions for ever!

[Damo2600]

It appears from this thread that the Theory of Special Relativity isn't as easily nor logically understood as thought. Einstein's (thankyou Tormod for the correct spelling) theory confuses us if we try to use logic. Perhaps the retractors of my explanation could comtempate this.

 

Josephine

[Little Bang]

Maddog, an observer can only see events. The simple act of this discussion requires the occurance of billions and billions of events(time) since time is the orderly occurance of events.

[Eduffy80911]

Maddog, an observer can only see events. The simple act of this discussion requires the occurance of billions and billions of events(time) since time is the orderly occurance of events.

 

Exactly, time=observation. To experience time you must experience some kind of observation whether it be a thought, a sound, a smell or a motion. In short time is data exchange. In order to synchronize activities we all take note of a common observation, such as the rotation of the Earth and revolutions around the sun or the relative motion of a photon.

[maddog]

Maddog, an observer can only see events. The simple act of this discussion requires the occurance of billions and billions of events(time) since time is the orderly occurance of events.

The simplest notion of time is that of duration and there we would only need two events -

the start and the end (stop).

 

maddog