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Physics is one of my favorite things to discuss, well next to politics that is. The reason it's
second to politics is because I can understand politics and it's relative aspects to the way it affects my life and the life of my family and friends.That's just not the case with Physics and the science
of Time and Space. I have relatively no Idea how they affect me as an individual in my daily life. So here we go: Now let me just tell you up front, you may see some cut and paste so don't get all bent
out of shape it's not plagiarism or copyright infringement it simple cut and paste because it's easier. After all I'm not the only one who thinks like me. The physics of Time and Space. I know that just
by being here and reading this page that you have some inkling of what Einstein was talking about when he devised his theory of relativity, or atleast you have a curiosity about it. Well when it comes to
the theory of relativity, matter, mass, energy, speed of light, time, dilation, gravity, black hole, quantum mechanics, string theory, the big bang, the creation of the universe, the expanding universe, time
travel, event horizon, quantum singularity, Newtonian space, the uncertainty principle and many others I have many Ideas of my own. For instance The theory of relativity simply states that time and space
are relative to the observer as an individual and not relative to the everyone at a given time or place in space. In this attempt to understand the
relativity of Space and Time I have thought long and hard about it. Not just about it itself, but about how to visualize or atleast get a grasp of what it it. And in doing so have come to a few conclusions
and made a few predictions of my own.Newton and his relative space: Isaac Newton was the first scientists to dabble in relative space and time in
that he discovered that speed and distance traveled were dependent on the frame of reference of the observer. For example, if you are on a train and you throw a ball in the same direction the train is moving
at a speed of 25 miles per hour, you will observe the ball moving at 25 miles per hour. However that the train is moving down the tracks at 50 miles per hour and person standing next to the tracks will
observe the ball moving at 75 per hour. So who's right? You on the train throwing the ball or the person standing beside the tracks watching you (and the thrown ball) go by.?
But how fast is the ball moving? And according to whom. The Earth is rotating and orbiting around the Sun. The sun is orbiting the galaxy, which is in turn moving
away from ( or expanding with ) the big bang. So, taking all these motions together, how fast is the ball moving through absolute space? Oh but wait, we said space is not absolute?
In 1887 a couple
of scientists, Albert Michelson and Edward Morley devised a method they believed would be able to measure the absolute speed and direction that they were moving through absolute space. By shining a light in
different directions, and accurately measuring the time it took to reflect off a mirror, one should see different times if one is moving through space. For example, if you are moving at one mile an hour less
than the speed of light, and you shine a light in front of you, shouldn't you see the light coming out at only 1 mile and hour? That's what they thought, and they made their measurement.
To their
surprise, the light took the same time in every direction, leaving them to either conclude that they were dead stopped right smack in the center of the universe, or something else was happening they didn't
understand. They repeated the experiment at different times, knowing the Earth was spinning, that in case they were at absolute rest at one time of the day they should be moving at another, and the results
were the same. No one could explain this because it appeared to violate the laws of physics.
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