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::::::no, the duration is independent of the frame of reference.[[User:Jaques|Jaques]] 06:51, 21 April 2007 (EDT)

::::::no, the duration is independent of the frame of reference.[[User:Jaques|Jaques]] 06:51, 21 April 2007 (EDT)

::::::The Point about Time Dilation effects, the phenomenon whereby an observer A finds that another observer (B)'s clock which is physically identical to A's is ticking at a slower rate as measured by A's clock, (meaning that time has apparently "slowed down" for B), is that different observers will ''necessarily'' measure ALL time differently. Consider the following: The sun emits a photon, and it speeds off and strikes the earth 93million miles away 8 minutes later, according to an earthbound observer. Captain Picard in the enterprise passing at 0.99c measures the distance between the earth and the sun and declares it not to be 93 million miles, but due to the Lorentz contraction, only 13 million miles. As the speed of light is constant, he measures the time from emission to target to be 1.1 minutes approximately. This means that two observers observe the same two events event but declare that the elapsed time between them differently. In the ultimate case, an observer sitting on a photon would declare that NO TIME has elapsed between the two events. The duration between two events is DEPENDENT upon the frame of reference.--[[User:Felix|Felix]] 12:25, 23 April 2007 (EDT)  

::::::I think you are confusing the fact that different observers moving at different speeds both declare that theirs is the 'one true time' (and for them time is still passing at the same rate that it always has done) with the fact that when fifferent observers measure time passing for each other they will come to very different answers. However, the point about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation|Time Dilation (see Wikipedia entry) ]] effects, the phenomenon whereby an observer A finds that another observer (B)'s clock which is physically identical to A's is ticking at a slower rate as measured by A's clock, (meaning that time has apparently "slowed down" for B), is that different observers will ''necessarily'' measure ALL time differently. Consider the following: The sun emits a photon, and it speeds off and strikes the earth 93million miles away 8 minutes later, according to an earthbound observer. Captain Picard in the enterprise passing at 0.99c measures the distance between the earth and the sun and declares it not to be 93 million miles, but due to the Lorentz contraction, only 13 million miles. As the speed of light is constant, he measures the time from emission to target to be 1.1 minutes approximately. This means that two observers observe the same two events event but measure the elapsed time between them differently. In the ultimate case, an observer sitting on a photon would declare that NO TIME has elapsed between the two events. The duration between two events is DEPENDENT upon the frame of reference.--[[User:Felix|Felix]] 12:25, 23 April 2007 (EDT)  

I took enough physics classes that relativity only matters when something is going very, very fast relative to an observer. As the narative takes place on earth, along with two of the characters and the attention of the third, nothing is moveing fast enough. - BornAgainBrit

I took enough physics classes that relativity only matters when something is going very, very fast relative to an observer. As the narative takes place on earth, along with two of the characters and the attention of the third, nothing is moveing fast enough. - BornAgainBrit