re: Joe Rogan & a NASA astrophysicist talk about measuring time

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Here's my thoughts. We can't actually measure time to begin with. Clocks are just ticking along to a frequency and not actually attached to time.

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Nah. You could apply that same logic to any measurement. All measurement is the application of some arbitrary standard.

How do we measure distance, for example? If you want to know how many feet it is from point A to point B, you first define a “foot” and then you count the number of 1-foot increments between the two points in a spatial dimension. Time is no different. You define the “second” then count the number of increments between two points in the time dimension.

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When an object moves through space at close to the speed of light, and it appears to lose time, but I think it's a problem with the time measuring device actually being physically slowed down. And not actual time being slowed down. The speed provides a resistance to things moving, such as the clock hands (or atoms) , and not an actual slowing of time.

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It’s not that the fast-moving clock “loses time.” An observer traveling at high speed alongside the clock would see it tick at normal speed, but an observer in the rest frame would see it tick slowly. That’s the entire point of relativity - there is no universal time. The amount of time that passes in two different reference frames is relative.

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It’s not that the fast-moving clock “loses time.” An observer traveling at high speed alongside the clock would see it tick at normal speed, but an observer in the rest frame would see it tick slowly. That’s the entire point of relativity - there is no universal time. The amount of time that passes in two different reference frames is relative.

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I think there is universal time. But we can’t accurately measure it to begin with. Pretty difficult to measure something you can’t see, hear, or touch.

I think everyone stays on the same time, but I also definitely think the theory of relativity still applies. Meaning yes, the person moving with the clock thinks time is normal, and the stationary observer it appears to have slowed down. But I think the just the clock slowed down, not actual time slowing down. All due to the whole "mass increases near speed of light" stuff.

Not saying I’m smarter than Einstein, just saying it’s ok to question things. That’s how new theories are formed.