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Can we climb into the past?

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  • Re: Can we climb into the past?
    « Reply #20 on: 03/07/2016 16:40:54 »
    Quote from: Thebox on 02/07/2016 09:27:48
    If I could freeze motion and place a huge ladder from the Earth to the Sun and then started to ascend the ladder, am I climbing into the past?
    ignoring the freeze aspect, which contradicts your motion:
    time is space with an alias.
    as you approach the sun, the time difference decreases as the distance decreases.
    when you arrive and stop, you share the same clock.
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    Re: Can we climb into the past?
    « Reply #21 on: 03/07/2016 18:15:01 »
    Quote from: phyti on 03/07/2016 16:40:54

    when you arrive and stop, you share the same clock.

    Has you approach the Sun the time it takes for the  light to reach your eyes lessens. You arrive to share the same inertial reference frame and it becomes rather relative to distance. 

    If I and you observe an object, and you are closer to the object than I, we will both disagree on the time we are seeing the object.






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    Re: Can we climb into the past?
    « Reply #22 on: 04/07/2016 20:45:31 »
    Quote from: Thebox on 03/07/2016 15:40:20
    Ok so looking at a solar flare, we 'see' the flare but what we are seeing happened 8 minutes ago, so the Earth experiences the affects of a solar flare at the same time as we ''see'' it ?

    What you say simply means both we humans and the earth(Which is the same distance from the sun) experience a flare at the same time, which is true and very obvious to any logical thinking person, namely 8 minuted for each for both the earth and a human standing on its surface., namely, namely

    Why did you make such an unnecessary comment Thebox?   
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