Terminology

[jayjacobus]

I have no disagreement with Einstein in principle but the terminology by physicists is a problem.

Time is function, a measurement, an index or a series of dates yet physicists use time in difeerent ways in one explanation. Or they pick a different connotation when answering a question.

Dimensions are a frame of reference for locations yet some physicists use dimensions to mean space.

Likewise dates are an index for (memories) of events yet some physicists use time (dates) as a location for events.

A simple explanation of relativity might be "In relativity if you add speed or gravity to an object, you change the behavior of the object in ways that Einstein discovered."

That is too simple for physicist who can go on for pages loaded with formulas to make relativity almost incomprehensible.

There is no such thing as absolute time in physics but the whole universe is always in sync (at the same time). How can that be unless there is an absolute time.

There is a dilation of time (relatiohnal time) that comes from changes in motion not from changes in absolute time.

Inertial frame of reference comes from physicists changing the frames of reference to fit local conditions. Why not specify the local conditions instead of the reference to local conditions?

Physicists reject what I say. Will anyone here agree?

[bahman]

Interesting post. I however think that your tension with physicists is only on terminology. Absolute and relative time completely defines different realities.

[QuantumT]

Our brains are not wired to understand a mathematical universe. It's wired for life on Earth.

So we use analogies to translate between math and what we can comprehend.

Imagine a big bowl of boiling soup. That's the universe. Now 3D x-ray film it at 1000 FPS. Each frame of the film is time.

Imagine that the soup is elastic. It can be stretched. Stretching it is extending it. Extension makes you able to "skip" time. Move ahead. Speed and gravity can extend time.

Hope this helps a little.

[Age]

Of course someone would agree with you. You make sense.

The reason physicists can not comprehend is because they are just like religionists. They both, by definition, have a very narrow way of looking at things. They both twist the definitions of words into a terminology that best suits either ones already held very narrow world view.