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[Damo2600]

Well I agreed that my post is obviously too complicated for the beginner. I used every recess of my brain to comprehend Relativity and it was, as such, impossible. How can you travel at a certain speed for a certain time and arrive much earlier than your odometer and clock states? It makes absolutely no sense. For the unprepared beginner trying to squeeze an understanding of this, out of their tiny brain, could very well cause a hemorage. So relativity needs to be stated as a function of spacetime that the logical mind cannot comprehend.

I attempted to explain this to members of the forum who were still obviously having trouble with this. Rather than back me up you decided I had failed miserably. I can and have accepted that.

If you are in agreeance with me on the fact that Relativity is true but totally illogical then I guess we have no problem. However I feel that if people decide to state that relativity makes perfect sense then many people are going to continue to have problems with it. Which is evident on this and many other forums. You all must have gone through the stage of attempting to understand all this and at a much younger age than I did. So you must know the contortions your mind needs to go through to come to an understanding.

If my expertise is crappy then I suggest, if one of you have time, you produce this thread. You could entitle it 'Time to end all misconceptions for all time - Part two'

We can then move on from discussing the basics on relativity.

Just a thought

Josephine

I did write many posts stating that Relativity was untrue and that time dilation did not happen and they did not end up in the strange claims forum. When I did state that relativity was true I ended up here (This is where all the cool people end up BTW).
This fact is way stranger than my post.