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0 pointsxyzelement1y ago0 comments

I don't want to discourage question-asking but you're now asking someone to give you a background on a physics phenomena without them knowing your starting level. It's awesome that the poster you're replying to introduced a new concept to us (not something I was thinking about, either) and literally taking the thing you quoted: "time does not flow the same everywhere" into Google will give you a starting point for your quest - you'll see even from the blurbs on the search result page that per relativity, time changes depending on where and how fast you're traveling. You can then dive into what that means you want to as well.

I good followup could be something like "I read about relativity and I still don't understand the connection you're making to this current article or something like that - but it doesn't seem fair to skip a basic Google search before asking for elaboration.

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spenczar51y ago

Okay. I am a professional astronomer at the University of Washington, and I don’t see that phrase as holding very much meaning. In particular, “flow” is a messy word to use.

A generous reading of the OP might be that it is a restatement of special relativity, but then it is indeed disconnected to this measurement. An uncharitable reading would be that it is spiritual goop.

Anyway, I prefer to let someone answer in their own terms.

xyzelementOP1y ago

Then I think a much better response to that poster would have been something "I assume you are talking about X but I don't see the connection"

komali21y ago

First search results:

https://www.quora.com/Does-time-flow-at-the-same-rate-everyw...

Quora side-paths:

> no, gravity

> no, speed and gravity

> no, gravity and velocity, look up time dilation

> yes, time is constant, however it is relative for observers

Second:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/do-we-a...

A fun exploration of what it means for time to flow, and how we don't really have observational personal evidence of time flowing (at a constant speed or at all), we just have our memories. Seems relatively unrelated otherwise.

Third:

https://medium.com/la-mia-biblioteca/does-time-flow-cafaf084...

Appears to be someone advertising a book.

Fourth: (i don't recommend this link)

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/738387/Time-NOT-real-...

Horrible shit article chock full of video ads about the same issue as link 2

Conclusion: It's ok to ask people what they mean when they say things. It's unreasonable to expect a google search from your listeners after you say something.

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