http://NimbleTheory.com/simple-curiosity/Simple Curiosity? Stuff everyone should know.Jeff Barsonen-USSquarespace Site Server v5.8.5 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Attila IntemyoFri, 11 Dec 2009 16:04:02 +0000http://NimbleTheory.com/simple-curiosity/2008/6/1/is-a-1000-year-old-human-a-possibility.html#comments55748:3067651:comment/6574189RachelThu, 10 Dec 2009 05:00:14 +0000http://NimbleTheory.com/simple-curiosity/2007/7/6/who-is-beowulf-why-is-grendel-dead.html#comments55748:3067651:comment/6565131RachelThu, 10 Dec 2009 04:55:56 +0000http://NimbleTheory.com/simple-curiosity/2007/7/6/why-do-we-have-baby-teeth.html#comments55748:3067651:comment/6565116AmandaThu, 26 Nov 2009 15:40:34 +0000http://NimbleTheory.com/simple-curiosity/2007/7/6/why-do-we-have-baby-teeth.html#comments55748:3067651:comment/6431167thought the K-PAX remark was cute...lol.]]>EmilioMon, 23 Nov 2009 16:44:23 +0000http://NimbleTheory.com/simple-curiosity/2007/7/12/why-time-slows-down-when-approaching-the-speed-of-light.html#comments55748:3067651:comment/6388365Jim MannWed, 28 Oct 2009 20:16:39 +0000http://NimbleTheory.com/simple-curiosity/2007/7/12/why-time-slows-down-when-approaching-the-speed-of-light.html#comments55748:3067651:comment/6055201MichaelMon, 26 Oct 2009 04:12:10 +0000http://NimbleTheory.com/simple-curiosity/2007/7/12/why-time-slows-down-when-approaching-the-speed-of-light.html#comments55748:3067651:comment/6008108If you walked to your refrigerator, it would take you 5 seconds. If you instead looked at your refrigerator from your chair, that would represent traveling to it at the speed of light). SO, to the refrigerators reference, you'd be 5 seconds older if you walked there, but you'd be 5 seconds younger if you got there at the speed of light.]]>Jim MannTue, 20 Oct 2009 19:54:41 +0000http://NimbleTheory.com/simple-curiosity/2007/7/12/why-time-slows-down-when-approaching-the-speed-of-light.html#comments55748:3067651:comment/5938259DWSun, 23 Aug 2009 16:35:16 +0000http://NimbleTheory.com/simple-curiosity/2007/7/12/why-time-slows-down-when-approaching-the-speed-of-light.html#comments55748:3067651:comment/5193884
I have spent the last few days working to wrap my head around space-time, and some problems related to it. It just dawned on me that though I know that time is supposed to slow down, I didn't know the mechanism thereof. So now I know the mechanism (which was, by the way, so extraordinarily well explained that it makes me feel rather foolish for not already knowing) but again, I feel I must take one more step back.

Why? Why does Einstein assert that the total speed through time and space must equal C? Also, if we can't observe the vector 'time', then couldn't C have an unknown component of time travel as well, that would fundamentally alter our assumptions here?

I have other questions but they are somewhat unrelated, so I will save them for another day.

Thank you all in advance.]]>hiFri, 21 Aug 2009 17:39:36 +0000http://NimbleTheory.com/simple-curiosity/2007/7/8/untouchability-the-caste-system-of-india.html#comments55748:3067651:comment/5179260