sci fi language abt "distorting" time is a misunderstanding
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
there is no objective time, it doesn't exist,m
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that was Einstein's big coup over Lorentz
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Lorentz saw the "contraction" and "dilation" but couldn't find the mechanism
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Einstein said there isn't one, the thing being distorted isn't real
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so take the twin paradox, two twins, one on a spaceship going .99c
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the "paradox" is when the space twin comes home the earth twin is decades older
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but all motion is relative, right? ones not objectively "standing still"
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how does the universe "know" which twin has "slowed time" vs "normal time"
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answer is there was no slowed time, the space twin is younger bc he's the one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
by going from .99c relative to earth to 0 relative to earth
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his path thru spacetime intersects w earth's w him having covered more "space"
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