“In contrast [to Newton’s concept of time], in relativity theory time is defined by a description of specific manipulations with clocks, light signals, and measuring rods. It turns out that events that are simultaneous for one observer will occur at different moments if viewed by another observer moving at a different velocity, which observer is “correct”? In practice this question is meaningless. Both are correct. In fact, there is no operational meaning to “absolute simultaneity,” despite its intuitive reasonableness. All operations by which time is measured are relative ones.” -- Klotz, Irving and Rosenberg, Robert. Introduction to Chemical Thermodynamics.
This statement supports the importance of one’s frame of reference – of which one’s velocity (speed) is of prime importance. Our ‘experience’ of the events of our lives is a function of our velocity.
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Posted by: Paula Masters | October 17, 2005 at 10:41 PM