> > Almost. But my original question then rises from
> >the grave - if time is relative, is it absolute
> >time that changes? Or is there such a thing?
> >
>
> No. It's your time that changes reletive to mine. That's the only way you can measure it. If you fly off at relativistic speeds and never come back, you'll never notice any time changes between you and me. To be sure, you'd be able to calculate them knowing your velocity with respect to me, but unless you actually came back, you'd never notice that your clock ran slower than mine did.

Question: So is every point in the universe is on it's own time, and each point's time is similar to the times of nearby points by a degree proportional to the distance between them? Does that question make sense?

Or, taking-off from Sam's absurd time wavers, is time dependant on matter? Er, time is measured by change--change in matter by default--so if there's no matter in a particular point, does time exist there? Oops, I think that question amounts to asking the nature of time.

gab"Just go after my first paragraph"by