> What parallax effect are you talking about? Stellar parallax, where distant stars seem to move against the background when viewed from different parts of the Earth's orbit? If so, then I don't think this is the same thing. I don't really have a good explanation for it, but I know it's not just an observational anomoly. It's something that, in one frame of reference, is absolutely true. It doesn't just "seem" to contract, it *does* contract in some real way.

I may have used the wrong name. I haven't taken a physics course in several years, and, while I remember all the information, I occasionally mix the names up. In this case I was referring to the distortion of sound waves with velocity - the reason you get that sort of "vrrrrr-ooooom" sound when a car drives past you.

> > The only way it makes sense to me is if time
> >moves in waves. Four-demensional waves, perhaps
> >- but waves nonetheless.
>
> I'm not sure I understand your reasoning here. Care to explain?

Well, it relates back to what I was saying about sound. Sound distorts with velocity - that can easily be proven - The reason for which being that the waves "compress" or "expand" do to the velocity, and thereby the wavelength changes, and so does the pitch. I was thinking of time in the same way - as you begin to accelerate to bizzarre and unfathomable speeds, the time "waves" compress and expand, so that, although as far as you're concerned time is functioning normally, it will be distorted with respect to others.

> I know I've said a lot, but have I answered your question?

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?

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