From: detect@newsguy.com   
      
   On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 2:04:56 PM UTC-5, richali...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > On Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at 3:00:26 PM UTC-5, Nicolaas Vroom wrote:   
   > > On Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:12:13 UTC+2, Ed Lake  wrote:   
      
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   Einstein's thought experiments produced papers which showed that   
   time is variable: The faster you travel, the slower time advances   
   for you, i,e., the slower your clocks will tick, the slower you   
   will age, the slower your hair will grow, etc.  It took a long time   
   for actual experiments to confirm that.  But they did.   
      
   Einstein's thought experiments about time also showed that if clocks   
   tick slower when they move faster, then the ether is "superfluous"   
   (i.e., "not needed"), since you can measure how fast you are going   
   relative to someone else by the difference in tick rates for identical   
   clocks.   
      
   If you have five people with identical clocks traveling at five   
   different speeds, their clocks will tick at five different rates.   
   You can rank the five by their relative speeds - A is moving faster   
   than B, B is moving faster than C, C is moving faster than D, and   
   D is moving faster than E.   
      
   Unfortunately, when Einstein said he made the ether "superfluous,"   
   some people inexplicably interpreted that to mean that motion is   
   reciprocal, i,e., if I am moving faster than you in my frame of   
   reference, you are moving faster than me in your frame of reference.   
   And no matter how many ways you show that belief to be absurd, they   
   still believe it.   
      
   Ed   
      
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