Edgar, I too await your answer to this simple question with great interest. Your statment that "it's the horizontal grid lines of the graph paper itself that represent present time" indicates that present time is a preferred frame of reference. Specifically, it is the frame in which those lines *are*horizontal, which is the rest frame of the Earth. Once you've answered Jason's question, I will be interested to know what singles out that preferred frame, and what experimentally observable consequences that will have (does your theory involve going back to a geocentric viewpoint, as well as a Newtonian version of absolute time?)
I think you may suspect Einstein was on to something here, and I think you may be getting close to getting it. It's really quite a simple obvious concept. You just have to put aside the old paradigm of a single kind of time and think it through. But first, the $64,000 question... How old is Sam when Pam arrives at Proxima Centauri? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
