Pragmatist posted
Its called 'relativity` because you cannot measure
your velocity except relative to something else.
No matter what your speed, you will perceive the
velocity of light as 'C`.
It is a property of space/time. If you think in
terms of space alone you are led into error.
your speed is how fast your going. it is not something that has to be related to something else.
to measure it, you have to use a seperate frame of referance, say the compareatively motionless stars. at that point you have to use time to measure it.
it has been proven that the faster you go, the slower your the time is in your time reference, as compaired to those out side at a standstill.
in this case the reference is to the speed of light.
if you go close to it, time slows down for you in comparison to the the person that it is not moving in relation to light. if he could see you, to him you would appear to be motionless. if you could see him, he would appear to be moving in a blur.
light would move away from you at light speed, but since your at 99.9999 percent of that speed, it hardly gets ahead of you in terms of the outside observer. in your terms it moves ahead at exactly the same speed as it would otherwise, since your time has compressed for you.
to claim that time is the same no matter what flies in the face of experments done by the air force in the early 70's. it also flies in the face of all understanding of the theory of relativity.
in order to measure things like speed and time, you have to have a frame of reference. since the speed of light is a constant, its frequently used. the problem occurs when your trying to compare things that happen at faster speeds, with a reference of zero speed.
