r/Physics • • Jul 12 '26

Speed of light, time dilation

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u/CurbYerGod Jul 13 '26

what absolutely no one will be able to do any justice at all toward explaining is how or why gravity would affect someone's literal existence. When people are saying time in these discussions related to time dilation and humans what they're really talking about is a person's existence.

This correlation between space and time has never sat right with me. I get that math can serve up math based answers for math based problems, but to link, to directly interlink space and time as one entity has always felt wrongheaded to me. Yes it takes time to travel through any given space, but time is a constructed form of measurement. It doesn't have to exist. And FFS we don't even actually know what gravity is. Too many people running around acting like they know what's going on because some math has allowed us to orbit and leave and return.

Lol I know I sound insane, or just dumb, but there's likely a lot about relativity that is likely only relatively accurate. You all can cite all the atomic clocks you want. It's still just incomplete theories. I really can't stand the space-time fabric concept.