KARL JASPERS FORUM

TA69 (Munevar)

Commentary 34 (to R1)

"IS THE WORLD THREE-DIMENSIONAL OR FOUR-DIMENSIONAL ?"
by Adhanom Andemicael
24 January 2005, posted 29 January 2005

<1> [Gonzalo Munevar; TA69, R1]

{Snip} By the way, the atomic clock experiments do not show any such thing as times happening in parallel. They confirm instead time dilation both in the special and the general theories of relativity.

<2> [Adhanom Andemicael]

The experiments indicate that simultaneity is relative. If simultaneity is relative, the world has to be four-dimensional.(1) As we know, in a 4D world, spacetime events exist in parallel with one another.

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NOTES

1. Vesselin Petkov makes this point in TA48 [6]:

<http://www.douglashospital.qc.ca/fdg/kjf/48-TAPET.htm>

<http://alcor.concordia.ca/~vpetkov/absolute.html>

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Adhanom Andemicael