> > 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?
>
> You're thinking about time the wrong way. Time is
> the 4th dimension. We measure things in three
> physical dimensions (length, width, and height)
> and one temporal dimension (time).
>
> Things move through the three physical dimensions
> at different speeds all the time, but "most" of
> the time (as far as we're concerned, anyway)
> things move through the fourth dimension at the
> same rate.
>
> However, it is quite possible for things to move
> through the fourth dimension at a different rate
> of speed then we're used to. It happens that "the
> faster you go", "the slower time passes." I put
> that in quotes because that's all relative, of
> course. You have to define what it is you are
> moving "faster" than, and what it is your time is
> moving "slower" than.

OK, that makes sense enough to me

As I try to visualize it at the moment, I think it would make sense if time, as a fourth dimension, were off kilter a bit--that is, not perfectly perpendicular to the other three, and increasingly so with relative velocity. If time is measured by change, then a change in change (acceleration) should equate in some form to a different speed through the dimension of time. Thus, in my mental construct, velocity in a temporal dimension would be analogous to position in physical ones. Whether this is accurate I both haven't a clue and seriously doubt.

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