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Re: The Theory of Special Relativity for the Totally Confused Beginner

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I am also aware that Special Relativity makes absolutely no sense in a Gallilean absolute reference frame - whereby *your* time equals *my* time regardless of velocity.
That's not what "an absolute reference frame" means.

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We as a society are brought up in a Gallilean world and are somewhat unprepared to understand Special Relativity.
Our daily experience has to do with low velocities, at least the ones we are able to percieve. Our fastest vehicles on Earth have top speeds well below 0.00001, even visible celestial bodies including meteors are below 0.001 in velocity.

At such velocities, Lorentz-invariant mechanics are tangent to the mechanics developed by Galileo and Newton.

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However IF you guys DO seem to think that relativity does make sense I suggest that you have no grounding in logic.
There's nothing illogical about relativity. It's based on math, which is based on logic.
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