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To: IronJack
Does time exist independent of space? Is there any relationship between the two?

Time and space are intimately locked together into what Einstein called "space-time". The distance one has yet to travel during a trip increasingly contracts with increasing speed. This is entirely apart from the obvious shortening due to their having already traveled some of the distance.

27 posted on 02/11/2017 8:15:39 AM PST by ETL (Trump admin apparently playing "good cop, bad cop" with thug Putin (see my FR Home page))
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To: IronJack

...to put it another way, a moving clock ticks out time more slowly than a stationary one at your side. In fact, it has been experimentally verified that people aboard fast-moving air or space craft actually experience a shorter length of time than the counterparts on the ground. In other words, to a very minute degree, they’ve actually moved ahead in time, vs earthbound folks. They used an atomic clock to measure.


31 posted on 02/11/2017 8:22:35 AM PST by ETL (Trump admin apparently playing "good cop, bad cop" with thug Putin (see my FR Home page))
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To: ETL

But that example deals entirely with SPACE, not time.


56 posted on 02/11/2017 10:30:39 AM PST by IronJack
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