results, or lack thereof

So, I decided that I would finally give myself a kick and start reading on RELATIVITY.

I gave up eventually and here I am, ‘blogging’.

I will … enlighten you, relativity is … not so simple, relative to other things.

… Mr. Textbook says: “Moving clocks run slow.”

Go ahead, english freaks, disect the sentence. Find all the techniques you can and their effect on the reader (me).

I’m freaking confused. By simultaneity, relativity, dilation… the only dilation I can recognise is dilation of the pupils…

And I’d prefer not seeing that either, if your pupils are dilated… you might be suffering a stroke… if I remember correctly.

Technically, when you say starts at 9:00 am, what you mean is that a ringing of a certain bell and the appearance of ‘9:00 am’ on a certain clock are simultaneous. BUT HOLD THAT THOUGHT, is it REALLY simultaneous? Maybe in YOUR frame of reference, but probably not in another. There’s even length dilation, a metre isn’t always … a metre. But that doesn’t make sense. I’d have to tell you what a metre is first… ok, so technically, a metre is a certain length of a path that light travels in 1/29979248 of a second. BUT HOLD THAT THOUGHT AS WELL. Einstein said that… time isn’t constant.

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OMFG, WHAT ?

… do you feel my confusion ?

If I really wanted to understand I’d have to read thought experiments. Which are a pain.

BASICALLY, I’ve read a whole pile of text, where the words ’simultaneity’, ‘relativity’, ‘Newtonian’ and ‘Einstein’ pop up constantly. And by constantly I mean at least once a line.

WHAT I’ve learned: LIGHT is the only constant. That’s right readers, the only thing you can trust in this world is the speed of light, ‘c’.

Yeah, it was a REALLY REALLY productive day, I’ll start referring to everything in terms of ‘c’ now…

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Now many ‘c’ will that cost? Huh, you want money? But what if it changes? What if … it … dilates? or depreciates in value? Are you sure you don’t want ‘c’? Even if the Earth explodes, or implodes… or starts to fizz… ‘c’ will be ‘C’!

‘c’ ‘c’ ‘c’ ‘c’ … there’s the key to getting 1% on my Physics test. 

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… what a horrible post, it’s not ‘c’ at all…

I’m not even making sense.