The problem most folks have with relativity is that they don't grok "space" nearly as much as they do "time."
Same deal with them when it comes to seeing the importance of Self when everyone goes around strutting as an expert on thoughts. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <j_alexander_stanley@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > Do you believe ONA is "real"? > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPERA_neutrino_anomaly > > > > http://dvice.com/archives/2011/10/speedy-neutrino.php > > "Those weird faster-than-light neutrinos that CERN thought they saw last > month may have just gotten slowed down to a speed that'll keep them from > completely destroying physics as we know it. In an ironic twist, the very > theory that these neutrinos would have disproved may explain exactly what > happened." > > [...] > > "Relativity is really, really weird. It says that things like distance and > time can change depending on how you look at them, especially if you're > moving very fast relative to something else. In the case of the neutrino > experiment, we've got two things to think about: the detectors on the ground > that measure where and when the neutrinos depart and arrive, and the GPS > satellites up in space that we're using as a basis for these measurements. > Since the satellites are orbiting the Earth and moving way faster than the > detectors, we say that they're in a different "reference frame," which just > means that the motion of the satellites is significantly different than the > motion of the Earth." >
