Quote Originally Posted by blade5x View Post
I know time technically "doesn't exist" - but is classified as a dimension. I currently view time dialation like this as taking a meter stick, compressing it to 10cm, and still saying that it is 1m long.

Are you 2 years ahead of me? Is this post on the 15th page from your current point of view. Maybe this post doesn't even exist yet. (PS no I do not do drugs)

I don't know, I just have to many questions about the universe.[/b]
Five miles is five miles, not matter how fast you drive. But five miles can be anything from a minute to an hour, depending on how fast you're going.

I liken this to time. We have a "rate of travel" through time that governs how much time we experience over the same amount of time. The faster we are going through space, the slower we are going through time. In fact, I think our overall speed (in both time and space combined) is always equal to the speed of light.

We are in approximately the same area of space-time; otherwise, we wouldn't be able to interact. I'd say I'm about where you are, give or take a second or so. Based on relativity, the maximum difference between our times is the time light would take to travel from me to you, which isn't long at all.

This post is not on page 15. You should know this forum doesn't distort our perception like that. And the post I just quoted most certainly exists.

Ask away, friend - I love to answer, although most of my answers are speculation and should be taken with a grain of salt.


"Time Flies" is psychological, though. When you have fun, you stop paying attention to the progression of time, and therefore whatever time you see when you finally pay attention will not be what you expected (becasue it is nowhere near the last time you paid attention to).