Questions of Light and Space (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 02:51 (5149 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Balance,-I'm rather late to this discussion, but I think I can answer this question for you relatively quickly, although it shames me that your physicist friend did not discuss this:-Time is relative (via Einstein.) Space and time are also equal to each other. -Our universe is infinitely expanding; therefore as time grows, so does space. And, all things in it are moving---our earth, our sun, and our galaxy are all in motion; it is simply not possible to ever be completely still in order to satisfy that requirement of your experiment. You could be still in relation to the sun, but the influence of the Milky Way would exert its influence on your experiment. -If you wonder about this, look up "gravitational lenses." Light cannot help but be influenced by gravity.-[EDIT]-You would have to be so distant... so remote... that no force anywhere could influence you. You would have to find a point somewhere in the universe where all gravitational forces cancel each other out... perhaps wherever our bang went big... and conduct your experiment there. But, even then your experiment would have error.

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