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To: sickoflibs

If time dilation in general relativity means that the earth is both 4.5 billion years old AND 6,000 years old, then length contraction says that the Empire State Building is in my garage.


50 posted on 02/05/2014 11:07:05 AM PST by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner
RE :”If time dilation in general relativity means that the earth is both 4.5 billion years old AND 6,000 years old, then length contraction says that the Empire State Building is in my garage.”

That could explain why we can see light from stars that are millions of miles away when it takes much longer than 6K years to reach here, maybe its just a few thousand miles at the same time.

But which time is my watch running on ?

:)

52 posted on 02/05/2014 11:11:45 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
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