The title is not the point of the post.
School starts in less than a week. To all you true CGSers out there, that means five days before you have to start your homework. Good luck.
That isn't the point of the post either.
This post is the 389th; that is quite a lot. I know we all enjoy thinking back to the young blog days...It was created April 2005. For all of you who wonder.
That isn't the point of the post.
I'm waiting for fifty dollars after being a finalist in the Ayn Rand Institute Anthem Essay Writing Contest.
That isn't the point of the post either, in case you were keeping track.
Many people seem to have abandoned this blog. I hope that it will revive with school. I implore you all to become more active in your friendly local neighborhood Junior Cgsers (Bend Site) blog.
Still not the point.
Anyway and finally, the real point of this post. All of that has led up to this, even though it's a drive for attention for my website...
Anyway, I encourage each and every one of you to visit www.wizardwalk.com (he needs more visitors; and besides, where else do you find out that smoking is bad for a Peep's health?) and click on the link labeled "Colin's." on the right side bar. I'd been absent from my own personal blog for quite a time, but I'm back and posts will be more frequent. I encourage discussion, so feel free to join in. I encourage it. The direct link is: www.wizardwalk.com/oglos
Also, to all of you who've read it before and are the most faithful group I have, I've updated it. New post as of tonight.
Well, that's all. This post really is like a glorified piece of spam. Thank you for reading.
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i care colin.
i didnt know you entered the Ayn Rand essay thing, good job!!
I also care. Thank you for the update, Colin.
thats cool colin, hope you win that contest!
Because the snow would melt.
Ah, Brian, I apologize. I didn't make myself clear. They have decided all the rankings; one grand prize, 5 second prizes, and 45 finalists (there may have been a third prize as well). So, then, mine was among the top (supposedly over 11,000 entries, but I would believe that they lumped their entries from all three essay contests) but I didn't win. I apologize for not clarifying.
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Sticking with Colin's 'this doesn't relate to anything' theme, I have a question:
If there is no absolute time (which there isn't, at least according to Einstein), how can atomic clocks be claimed to be perfect?
Because we have decided to go with what the atomic clocks say and, as such, they are never wrong.
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I care, but not about the first 4 things mentioned in this post. I'll be sure to comment again on your other blog when I'm done here. Colin, that answer, though mostly correct, really doesn't say much. And atomic clocks aren't perfect, they're just very very accurate. And since there is no absolute time, they are not accurate for someone who is traveling at a different rate than we on earth are. They're only accurate for those who, like the clocks, aren't moving in relation to the earth. In the tests where one clock was placed on the ground and another in a plane traveling at a great speed, the one in the plane showed a different time than the one on the ground, since we usually aren't traveling as fast as that plane, we use the one on the ground, the one that gives "earth time."
But even if a clock is just sitting on top of the Rockies, it will be a fraction of a second off than a clock at sea level (and every clock in between for that matter). So which clock is "earth time"?
Wait a minute, does that affect the time? Any clock on earth isn't really moving in relation to any other clock on earth, no matter what the altitude, as long as both clocks are sitting on the ground. If a clock is a given distance away from another clock, and they're both resting on the surface of the earth, the distance between them isn't going to change, there's no difference in motion between the two of them, therefore no difference in time. Yes, they move differently in relation to other things, the sun for example, but that doesn't matter in setting our clocks on earth.
Yeah it does, remember the experiment in 1962 (I think) when someone was at the top of a water tower and someone was at the bottom (both on Earth) and their time was still a fraction of a second off.
Its just if you compare the surface of the Earth to say the surface of the sun, its bigger (I think a whole second off).
No, I don't remember that experiment, but a quick search on wikipedia has refreshed my memory. I wasn't considering the effect of gravity on time distortion. So yeah, earth time is just the time where the official atomic clock is, which is wrong for everywhere that's a different distance from the center of the earth than the official clock, wherever that is.
Also, John, you should note that the Earth itself is rotating. Taking into account that a clock at sea level, being on Earth, is moving with the Earth. A clock in the Rockies, however, though also moving, is farther away from the center of the Earth, thus meaning it has to travel a greater distance in one rotation, meaning it is actually moving faster than the clock at sea level.
I believe, though I'm not sure, that 'standard' Earth time is time at sea level.
Time is relative to movement, not to the Earth. Meaning, if we found another planet moving at exactly the same speed(s) as Earth, then we would surely have the same time system. (They may not use seconds, minutes and hours as we do, but all that would be needed is a simple direct conversion between the two time scales.)
Thank you.
Yes, they're moving but not in relation to each other, so according to the special theory of relativity there isn't a difference... but the general theory says that there is, I hadn't been aware of that at the time.
A clock on a mountain and one at sea level are moving at different speeds in relation to a point not rotating like the earth is. The greater speed of the clock on a mountain will make it run slower. (the force of inertia because of the earth's rotation does affect it by lessening the force of gracity from the earth) However, in reality, it doesn't run slower, it runs faster because it's farther away from the earth's gravitational field.
Also, the earth's going around the sun, the sun's going around the center of the galaxy, which is traveling away from the center of the universe, which means that even at identical altitudes, different points on the earth are moving at different rates in relation to another point like the sun or the center of the universe. We can't feel that we're moving like that, the forces aren't so great (or jsut very far away) that it doesn't affect the time here very much.
If I understand you correctly, John, you just made exactly my point. Thank you.
Ok, so you proved that time can be different, but what about age? If a identical twin was placed in a vessel moving around the earth at very high speeds, and one was left on the surface of Earth moving along with everyone else, after a certain number of time (Years, probably, depending on the speed, and of course, according to the twin on the Earth) would the one in the vessel be physically younger? (AKA look and be physically the age of a 6 year old where as the twin on the ground would look and be physically 12?)
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