{"id":2586,"date":"2015-01-24T15:45:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T20:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2015-06-17T05:44:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T09:44:45","slug":"special-relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2015\/01\/special-relativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Relativity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"byEinstein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Special Theory of Relativity<\/a> in part states that a moving clock ticks slower than a stationary clock. The theory goes that as a clock\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s velocity increases it continues to measure time at a slower and slower rate until it reaches the speed of light at which point it stops altogther. I hold that Einstein didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to do a lot of complicated math to figure this out. All he had to do was talk with a four year-old and someone middle aged.<\/p>\n

Remember how important that half year was before you got to school? You were never going on three, or four. No, you were four and a half. That half became crucial at some point in early childhood. It separated you from the younger kids, the babies, who weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t as grown up as you and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to do as many things. That half was important probably from when you were old enough to answer the question about your age until you were about nine or ten.<\/p>\n

That half year stopped mattering somewhere around puberty when we all started measuring in bigger, societal driven milestones like getting a driver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s license, or being able to vote, or drink, or join the military without parental permission. And for most of us that half year pretty much ceased to exist once we turned twenty-one. Then something strange started to happen: those societal milestones we measure by started to be ones we dread.<\/p>\n