Misconceptions in Relativity

Just read it, and oh... my... god...Just when you thought you'd seen it all

He's from fucking Stormfront?! That asshole of the Internet filled with White Supremacists and their hate speech?If he is, ban him. Seriously. We don't need that garbage here.

Oh like these: What a disgusting human being.I was hoping these type of people died out.This guy is headed down the highway at 120 mph, completely covered with little plastic darts, and twelve flashing cop cars in pursuit.

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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Dr. Carl Sagan

And I was conversing with this scum??? Think I need a bath... in bleach.

Your saying that those are purely observational effect shows the root of our disagreement. Your understanding of relativity is that one perspective is intrinsically real and the other is not. That is not so simple. Can you say that the ground under your feet is intrinsically curving yet apparently flat? Which is more of an impression here, flatness or curviness? I guess it's both real and apparent as a function of its distance from you as an observer. The closer you come to the earth the flatter, it grows in one perspective, yet that again would depend on your starting point.
For, in another perspective if you start from observing the earth as a sphere while gradually increasing the distance from it, it may grow flatter again first becoming a flat disk to merge eventually with the apparent flatness of the space serving it as the background and to shrink into a point before vanishing from your view completely.
So the earth could be then said to be once round and twice flat.Which is which entirely depends on the arbitrary chosen perspective again.
What you can say legitimately is only that the earth is really not torus-shaped piece of green cheese.The same goes for the length contraction, time dilation and mass transformation. Strictly speaking claiming that an object may have any intrinsic length, shape, mass or rate of ageing other than to itself comes only from the long habit of observing that object in close proximity or in the rest frame shared with the observer. Only while the magnitude of the effect is negligible for all practical effects and purposes. Rest is as relative as distance while being but uniform motion relative to something else assumed at rest again and all motion is but breaking of a uniformity of rest.
That's where your ludicrous claim that the universe has a real age you pretend to measure. It's age may again depend on you distance from it. What is your distance from the universe is a nonsensical question making any certain answer no wiser than was the question itself.

Despite the actuality the fact that anomaly is believed getting on account of some element in the craft, along the lines of radiation of thermal vitality etc, and that an additional craft is prepared to investigate this phenomenon, it appears some YECs are busy slapping on their own inside the backs much more than this.{Spam links deleted - Adminnemooseus}Edited by Adminnemooseus, : See above.