do you think time is really relative ?

Question

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don't u feel sometime "time" moves too fast and sometimes u wait anxiously but time just drags on

Answer 1

I watched "Einstein Revealed" and "Einstein's Big Idea" recently and I didn't follow the time-is-relative argument.

They described one thought experiment. A rider on a train passes between 2 rods (arranged alonside the track so that the train passes rod A then rod B) that (to a person standing midway between them) appear to be struck by lightning simultaneously. But to the rider the rod in front appears to be struck first, then the second (because while the light is traveling from the rod to the eyes the eyes are movind toward B and away from A) so the light from A reaches the eyes later than the light from B.

But to me that does not prove that time is relative. It just proves that you can't judge when something happened by when the light strikes your eye because light takes time to travel.

I think Einstein was confused by the difference between what's happening in objective terms and what's happening from the subjective perspective of a particular human being.

It is cool to think that when you look up and see a light in the sky that light might have left its source millions of years ago and the star(s) that produced it are definitely not where they appear to be and in fact might not exist at all (as stars).

Answer 2

Nope time is not relative. It's the way we measure it is relative.

Time is the gap between any two instances. It's just that we measure it with respect to some perspective, could be yours, could be mine.

We measure time in different relations. Like a day on earth consists of 24 hours. Here we are measuring time based on the rotation of the earth. Now on this very basis, the revolution period of earth was calculated. This very time was divided into smaller segments to note down smaller time instances.

Like we you say it takes five 1 hour for you to reach from your one town to another, what you are actually saying is that it takes you 1/24th of the earth day to travell the distance.

Einstein proposed that the speed of light is constant. He was able to prove it based on some experiments and equations. Now based on these segments of earth day he calculated the speed of light.

When you feel time is running slow, it's actually you mind has jumped into a higher speed and you are experiencing everything to be slow. When you say time is running pretty fast, it's that your mind has jumped into a lower speed and you are experiencing things to be pretty fast. No wonder you feel time is running slow when you want to get out of something. That's a stage when your mind thinks if different things subconciously the get it's master (the body) into a comfortable position. And, you feel the time is running fast when you want to stick into something and you are not able to. In this case your mind is subconciously in a state to gather up whatever it can just to let yourself focuss. In this effort it misses out other things running around and by the time it realizes it, you feel as if , "oh! how come so early."

Let me give you an example here. Assume that you and me are standing ten feet apart. You close blink and find me with a can of coke. You wonder how. I say that when you blinked I went to the desk another ten feet behind you, grabbed my can and came back. You would think that I was pretty quick. And I would feel that you were too slow in your blink...

So once again my friend... Time is not relative, it's the observer's point of view that is relative. You keep observing things from various perspectives, your experiences would be different. Time would runn with the same speed.

:-)

Answer 3

The lightning/train/rod example is a good one. But you're taking it too literally. I think that Einstein meant that we are not aware that we are on a moving train. So we make observations that are based on our current perspective of time and space. If the train were to speed up or slow down the observations would change. More specifically, the time it took for the light to reach our eyes would change. So I belive that time is realative. Im not familiar with any experiments to prove this but its my belief.

Answer 4

yes,acordding by einstein time and sapce are relative to each other.no alone time or space are live in universe alone.when u go in universe by spaceship u not only travel in space but also in time.

Answer 5

Although time certainly doesn't seem relative in our everyday world, experimental evidence would suggest that it is.

Answer 6

no

Answer 7

what the hell are you takling about *****