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To: kosta50
It can be "true" depending how you look at it

I think the point in Relativity is it's different depending on from where you look at it.

It's been quite a while, but my memory is that the significant change is that for Newton the "clock" is the same everywhere for all observers - a uniform, absolute, independent attribute - the same everywhere in the universe when viewed from anywhere else in the universe. Space and time could be considered separately.

For Einstein, the speed of light is that way, and spacetime a continuum.

1,383 posted on 02/12/2011 9:29:42 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
the "clock" is the same everywhere for all observers

How is that possible given that light is not everywhere instantly?

1,388 posted on 02/12/2011 11:43:41 AM PST by kosta50 ("Spirit of Spirit....give me over to immortal birth so that I may be born again" -- pagan prayer)
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