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Tue 30 Dec, 2014 07:01 am
Because of our overwhelming habit of how to describe the world much confusion abounds.We are used to obeying our eyes,hearing etc.Any other kind of thought to contradict our senses are rejected by the average person as making no sense.This is probably needed so we can survive on a day to day basis.However scientists need another language to explain the universe.The scientists to get thrown for a loop trying to understand their world of symbols.
I contend that the math used to understand relativity is just another way of explaining the world except that the symbols are hard to accept considering that even if understood seem to contradict our world of common sense.
For example how can we travel into space and then come back younger than you were? The idea I think is just that,a world of ideas.The ideas the physicists are talking about are just logical ideas not what one's common sense tells us.
Allan
This language is needed to explain things so take heart ya'll trying to understand relativity.
@sunriseclub,
It isn't just science that contradicts common sense. Mathematics, history, sociology, health and human relationships all contradict common sense.
Common sense consists of the things you "know" without giving it much thought. It is quite often wrong.
@maxdancona,
Agreed . . . a "common" example of this is that hot water freezes faster than cold water. Evaporation is an energetic component of water freezing, so, in fact, hot water freezes more quickly than cold water. From the Physics Department at the University of California:
Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?
@sunriseclub,
sunriseclub wrote:For example how can we travel into space and then come back younger than you were?
Not to be too picky or anything, but that isn't quite right. You would never come back younger than when you left, but you would come back slightly younger than you
would have been if you had stayed put.
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