From: detect@newsguy.com   
      
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   What I am trying to explain is that time moves slower when an object   
   moves faster.  And when you reach the speed of light, time stops.   
   Period.  That is what Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity says.   
      
   The speed of light can be used as a "preferred" reference frame.   
      
   When you talk about "frames of reference" where observers are imagined   
   to be "stationary," you create a FICTION where each observer sees the   
   other observer as moving.   
      
   Instead, you should do as Einstein recommended and have the observers   
   COMPARE the tick rates of their clocks.  The clock that is moving the   
   fastest will tick at the slowest rate.  Thus, instead of fantasizing   
   that you are stationary and the other observer is moving, you can   
   determine who is ACTUALLY moving faster than whom.   
      
   The only objects that are "stationary" in our observable universe are   
   objects that move at the same speed in the same direction.  Their clocks   
   will tick at the same rate, so they are "stationary" relative to one   
   another, even if both are traveling at 486,000 miles per our around the   
   center of the Milky Way galaxy.   
      
   Ed   
      
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