Special & General Relativity made easy =p 3/4

Do you have a fascination with Einstein's theory of relativity? What I mean is, do you find yourself fascinated by the weird predictions of this theory and would like to get to the bottom of it once and for all? While relativity Is not a light read (all puns here are accidental, BTW), pieces of it can be easily understood. This is particularly the case with Special Relativity.

I'll attempt to explain in an intuitive way, why the time of a rapidly traveling object seems (from your point of view) to slow down. That is, why an object seems to age more slowly when it travels at very high speeds.

You will have to take two things on faith: the speed of light is constant (an experimental fact) and that all frames of reference traveling at constant speed have equal validity. The explanations that follow rest completely on these two conditions.

Our brains are wired for survival purposes for a 3 dimensional and very slow moving environment. Compared to the speed of light, the everyday objects that our brains perceive and reason about are barely moving at all. Our common sense about how the world works is specialized for dealing with an almost non-moving or static environment (again, that's compared to the speed of light).

What this means, is that what our common sense tells us about our sluggish everyday world is mostly correct but otherwise it's judgements cannot be trusted when dealing with extremely fast things.

So when experiments and mathematics tell us things that are contrary to our crude perceptions about how things should work, we find it to be totally bizarre
cont'd http://www.squidoo.com/relativity_explanation
Want some more juice for your brain ? =p
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/
http://www.einstein-online.info/en/elementary/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity
http://www.einstein-online.info/en/elementary/generalRT/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
sitll want some more yummies?
buy a book :D
http://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Life-Universe-Walter-Isaacson/dp/0743264746/re...
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[Grognax]

@gewizz2 It made me cringe...

[gewizz2]

the most intresting bit was the apple sound at the end!