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Originally Posted by tore
you seem to accept that there is a special frame by which you can measure movement
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Movement is measured in relation to something else. The Earth moving in relation to the sun, our solar system moving in relation to our galaxy, our galaxy moving in relation to nearby galaxies in the universe, etc.
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Originally Posted by tore
You also presume that one can go faster than the speed of light ..
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I'm aware of this, I was just postulating that maybe it IS possible. I'm obviously not a physicist, but I was just thinking out loud. Like I said, in relation to another frame of reference, we could very well be moving faster than the speed of light (or atleast APPEAR to be from another frame of reference), while appearing to be stationary inside of our frame of reference. I tried to come up with a good enough example to demonstrate this in my original post.
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Originally Posted by tore
Other assumptions are that age is a function of distance travelled and you treat speed as if it's cumulative, regardless of direction.
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We measure a year as the time that it takes the Earth to fully revolve around the sun, do we not? And if that length of time changes, does our age not change? I guess I'm trying to say that our total time being alive would not change, just the way we measure it.