On another thread (another website) someone wrote something like:
Time is both a constant
and a variable.
I'm not saying I agree with that, but it seems to cover everything (hee, hee).
What I was getting at (way back when) is that IF one accepts that time
is another dimension AND an object/person/etc. is moving relative to you,
then they are out of time respect to you. They are in a dimension just slightly
off from yours. (ie. the Special Relativity stuff.)
For example, you are sitting on a park bench and your twin jogs
past and says hi blah blah. Because he is moving and you're not, then
you both are not in the same time. That is, not *exactly*. As humans we could never
perceive it of course. We would (according to the books) apparently be constantly
moving askew in time relative to people we know. Sometimes forward askew, and
sometimes backward in our lives.
-Stephen
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Time dilation is defined as the change in pace of time in each given frame of reference such that time speeding up or slowing down may vary depending the velocity in comparison to another frame of references velocity, the idea that time is absolute only came up when this was observed so, however now we know that this variance in time is only apparent to us at high speeds way beyond everyday velocitys
In Albert Einstein's theories of relativity time dilation is manifested in two circumstances:
In special relativity, clocks that are moving with respect to an inertial system of observation (the putatively stationary observer) are found to be running slower. This effect is described precisely by the Lorentz transformations...
In special relativity, the time dilation effect is reciprocal: as observed from the point of view of any two clocks which are in motion with respect to each other, it will be the other party's clocks that is time dilated. (This presumes that the relative motion of both parties is uniform; that is, they do not accelerate with respect to one another during the course of the observations.)
http://en.wikipedia....i/Time_dilation