Interesting.
A whole lotta ifin'.
Ping. : )
Cool, now I've got another bunch of papers to look up next time I hit the library!
I have been speculating for quite some time that time is not linear as we perceive it to be.
There's another thing that's true in any reference frame, Tom Cruise is a jackass.
There is work being done on this as well as liberal media invariance.
The crux of special relativity is that light moves at the same speed for everything, regardless of which way it is pointed or how fast it is moving relative to anything else. This has some well-known consequences: space and time are linked, so that distances shrink and time slows down at high speeds. Einstein saw that if electromagnetic laws, which dictate the speed of light, truly hold throughout space and time, these counterintuitive effects are inescapable. (The technical name for this attribute of nature is Lorentz invariance.) Special relativity assumes that spacetime has no structure of its own that might pick out a preferred orientation. But physicists think that a theory combining quantum mechanics and gravity will show that spacetime is made up of pieces, like light is made of photons. The structure of these pieces, as well as thus far unnoticed forces predicted by some of these theories, could mean that space has a slight grain to it.
My turn for stupid question of the day:
If everyone of us is in a slightly different spacetime frame because of different speeds relative to each other and to the rest of the universe,
and if spacetime is "grainy", then
how come we are all seamlessly connected to one another and can communicate?