How to create a monopole magnet!

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Gravity,
Will you draw us a picture of space/time?

Below is a picture of space-time. Here's a video that illustrates space-time much better than I could ever do in a picture, http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1201649/time_travel_einsteins_big_idea_theory_of_relativity/  After looking at the picture and video, let's do an experiment that is based on space-time.  The experiment will be a race between you and light.

First, lets set some parameters for simplicity sake.  Both will have an instantaneous speed.  The speed for light will be 100 miles per second (mps).  Your speed will be 50 mps.  The race will be 400 miles in distance.

Let the race begin.  At the 1st second, we will do a calculation to see how we are doing in the race.

At the 1st second:
Light is at the 100 mile marker.  You are at the 50 mile marker. Light calculate it's speed to be 100 mps according to the mile marker and how much time as passed.  It knows it has 300 miles left to the finish line and calculates in 3 seconds it will cross the finish line.  You calculate your speed to be 50 mps.  You have 350 miles left in the race. You calculate in 7 seconds you will travel 350 miles and be at the finish line. You calculate light to be moving 2 times faster than you and will reach the finish line in 3.5 seconds. Your calculations are wrong!  Light will reach the finish line in 3 seconds and not in 3.5 seconds according to your calculations and an outside observer at the finish line will confirm this.

Let's reverse the process and do a calculation at 100 miles.  Light has a speed of 100 mps, you 50 mps.

At 100 miles, you calculate 2 seconds has passed.  You calculate your speed to be 50 mps.  You notice light is at the 200 mile marker and an outside observer at the 200 mile marker confirms this.  You calculate light to have a speed of 100 mps or two times faster than you.  There's 300 miles left in the race for you.  If you're speed is 50 mps, then it will take you 6 seconds to travel 300 miles to the finish line.  Since light is moving 2 times faster than you, you calculate light to reach the finish line in 3 seconds.  Your calculations are wrong!  Light will reach the finish line in 2 seconds and not in 3 seconds according to your calculations.  At the 200 mile marker, light calculates 2 seconds has passed and calculates it's speed to be 100 mps.  If light's speed is 100 mps and there is 200 miles left in the race, then it will take light 2 seconds to reach the finish line and not 3 seconds according to your calculations and an outside observer at the finish line will confirm this.   

I hope you can see the discrepancies in time between you and light.  Both are calculating the other racer to reach the finish line in different amounts of time, regardless of the method used in the calculations.

This is all mathematics and does not actually prove time is ticking at a different rate for each racer.  It only proves that you can not use your own measurements in your own frame of reference to determine another frame of reference. 

In the real world, the atoms oscillate or tick at different rates according to the energy in that system.  The faster you travel, the slower the atom will oscillate or tick.  When you increase your speed, you are also increasing your energy and relative mass, which affects the rate at which time ticks for all things in that system.  They have to constantly adjust the clocks on the GPS Satellites that are in space on a daily basis to be in sync with the clocks here on earth due to time ticking at different rates.  Also, no matter what your speed is, you will always calculate light to have the same speed of C or 186,000 mps as shown in the video.  Try to wrap your mind around this, then it is easy to understand space-time.  Time is just as real as space, thus space-time in Einsteins theory of relativity.


Take care,

GB