Lewis Carroll Epstein says the reason we can't go faster than light is that we can't go slower than light, c is our speed along the time axis.
Brent Günther Greindl wrote: > Abram, > > an intuition I have come to concerning time is the following (it is only > qualitative and may or may not be helpful in thinking about time): > > From relativity theory we know that there is no universal now, and that > the invariant between two "points" in the physical universe is spacetime > distance, where time or space are interchangeable relative to different > (moving) observers. > > Now let us for the moment go into the position of an observer > (ourselves, for instance). > > space: is the dimensions over which I have control as a thinking > subject. I can move left, right, up, down, front, back - three > dimensions. I can consciously change my relation to other objects (which > continue on their trajectories through spacetime). > > time: is the motion of all other objects in the universe in relation to > myself - even some objects of which I am made of, say, the cells in my > body (which divide etc), bloodstream etc. > > So we see a first person/third person divide: > > space as the self moving in relation to everything else, > time as everything outside the self moving in relation to > oneself. > > So, in this sense, time and space are indeed very much alike - they just > represent different points of view (self vs otherness) > > Just a few thoughts :-) > > Best Wishes, > Günther > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
