Kip Thorne - What is Space-Time?

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1. his aaeeeh is just the genius equivalent of "know what I'm sayin'
2. Every genius has two sides, cleverness and stupidity. Spacetime is the stupidity. General relativity theory is the stupidity.
   
   In GRT, it looks very clear Einstein had been poor in astronomy. In GRT, he is not a scientist. Someone those who accepted general relativity is not a scientist. What's the reasons?
   
   Please watch the slideshows: New evidence has been found: General relativity was totally wrong.
3. When I run fast and have a great pase. I can see things go slow but in reality they really going fast. It's a relaxation mode in the mind.
4. He really does not have a crisp understanding of "spacetime" and even admits at 8:38 that he has problems with the concept. He would ease his difficulties if he just realized that "spacetime" is basically FOS or failure of simultaneity which should not be admixed with slowing of moving clocks as he did earlier on. Mathematically it is gamma X (+-vx/c^2) and shows up when moving time is measured across an horizontal distance as opposed to perpendicularly to direction of travel. It is ALSO easy to visualize contrary to what he says and no more difficult than visualizing the different clock settings across the breadth but not the length of the continental USA. The latter however is NOT due to FOS but due to earth's rotation.
   Secondly Einstein did NOT make things simpler, as he tried to suggest early in his talk but very complex by introducing FOS (or spacetime) which he too found "surprising and unexpected". No wonder he had a devil of a time formulating the General theory.
   Luckily all time is still ultimately measured in seconds and length in meters.
5. Kip you are wonderful
6. i think he is the modern Einstein..maybe einstein's nephew
7. He is wrong. Einstein did not and could not use LOGIC to postulate light speed as constant. It was an INSPIRATION supported by Maxwell derivation of just ONE value for C.
   If constancy of C could be logically derived from othe principle then it would NOT be a new idea but a mere deduction from a deeper more general principle i.e a mere derivation.
8. smart guy like him cannot stop saying the stupid ayeeeey.
9. a vocal tic
10. In other words... Freezing a human body and stopping all the stuff that keeps you living in time as we know it.. If you frozen like a chicken in a freezer.. Gone in to space.. Time in life as we know it will never really happen (like when you sleep and wake up it only feels like a very short time). So if you got frozen and fired out in space.. A million or billion years would feel like you just went to sleep!!! ie.. Time as you know it is personal.. So like if you died now.. But woke up a million years later you would never known the time has passed. So really time is not really real!!! Only as you know it and live it.. Space will go on and on and on with No end.. (Makes you think why where when what) best off living your life and when your gone you won't have to think about it because time will never bother you! Lol.,..
11. Great job on this one...fascinating how Dr Thorne does not want to elaborate on his personal feelings about the nature of space time too much, beyond admitting the mathematical existence of 4 dimensional spacetime..
    He must have them,but as a physicist he wants to keep it strictly within the realm of math...this is unusual because it suggests that he looks at math as a tool and not necessarily reality itself. Relativity is so geometric however that most of the ideas can be easily understood without math. The math is beautiful too,but is is hard to tell if Thorne has a Platonic view of math or not. I am going to say he does not,but then again, that may be wrong. He is using conservative principles as a physicist. A good idea too.
    Incidentally, it's hard to believe that Einstein did not realize this from the
    beginning. Some people think he was against Minkoski's spacetime,
    because Minkoski had called him "a lazy dog" lol. Einstein was a student
    of Herman Minkoski, from what I have read.
12. I am a mathematician for a start? what kind of math do you want to chat in? ricci tensor?
13. So why does he go "aaaaaeh!" anyway? I've always wondered...tourettes or something? That aside this guy is the man and a genious.
14. He'd be the smartest pirate, aeeeey!
15. SciJoke: "Your mother is so fat that her wrist watch runs slower" Our sense of time flow depends of the way we move in space. Every one of us is moving in space-time at a very high speed, not really fixed, but with a minimal variation, but significant enough to make each and every one of us move in space-time in our own and exclusive path.
16. E = mCsq . I got this. A person is light out of his/her eyes, that which he "sees", written as Csquared. it is his "field of vision". [now it is of upmost importance to always keep in minds the various meanings(logic) and rhymes(feeling derived by the "sound" of things. It is word relativity who/whom governs (h)our reality. So that the C of a man difers from that of a woman, together , that is one projects time and the other space. E is the nrg(orgy) of sex. but see, the sound of the word can morph and then can be manipulated with pure logic only, and then of course it can and will it morph from a second ordered logical state.
    So the logic is that for E to equal nrg(orgy), we must apply logic to reign in all doubt the best we can, so that you can't have an orgy with 2 people, whereby the joining of 2 people is a couple and knot a group, but then 3 could fit into a loose definition of "group". So then an added unknown character is needed to fulfill the definition of the term "E". So now whe know that E=mcsquared is the solution, or answer, to the quest ion of, "mommy/daddy, where do babies come from? 2 Cs get together causing a flow of E which produces a little "m". my whole body and mind is changing...sleep is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. my mind is not racing; it is on a clear course I like to call "a sunday drive in the park". I am the electron, who projects this reality of space-time. But Humanity has been seeing cross-eyed up until this point, so we see ourselfs as victims to circumstance, bounded by mathematical functions, destined to eek out a medeocre existance and then decay and die. But i totally reversed my thinking by practicing by taking the WORD at face value. So in the world we see this as idiotic. Yes, to see me in this world, i am an idiot. And i guarantee you will hear no arguement of this from my past wifes. because, really, my dream for as far as i can remember was to come up with some logical explanation, or agreement, in my mind about who i am and what i am doing. so now i step out of "dreaming" for better days to living the dream better.
    
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17. Its obvious he doing that sound on purpose just to annoy us
18. aeyyyyyyyy
19. Let's sopose a very very long train is standing on a station. So the space and time is common with the station, the middle of the train is standing on the station, and we have a reference fixed to the train, and an other on the station. the two reference systen is equal, so 'x=x and t'=t. x' and t' system is fixed tot the train, x and t fixed to the station.
    So x'=x and t'=t so all point of the x and x' axis the t and t' equal to 0
    let's sopose the tran start to accelerate wiht a=0,8 fpr a time T=1 at the end of the acceleration its spead is 0,8 at X=0,4 from the station. X=a/2*t*t
    Let's have at this point and other station.
    At the end of the acceleration the train is moving with v=0,8
    Let's align a milkowsi to this point. So the real observation will start from these reference point. From the station the clocks at the front of the train are late with v*x... So the farer the clock is close to the front of the train its delay is more and more with the function x*v We can go sp far where this delay s more then the trans spended time during the acceleration...
    The clocks had to turn back on these points!!!!!
    
    What is this ?
    
    Can anybodey explain me?
    
    if the clocks are moving back from the station, until the end of the acceleration,,, is not a a time jurnay back on the front of the train?
    
    I would be pleased if somebody who were educated in this topic would answer me!!!!
20. space time is defined by most modern theory of universe as '' COMBINED NOORISMIC FIELD''............NOORISM PHILOSOPHY