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Published: 2005-05-16 14:10:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 2853; Favourites: 119; Downloads: 994
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The Theory of Relativity tells us that time is not absolute. What is correct for one person is not necessarily correct for someone at a different location with a different motion. Of course, we humans have a strange tendency...we decide that time is absolute, and that the people in different locations are not correct in their motions.Related content
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the symmetry really adds a lot to the atmosphere of this shot (and so does the colour). It shows us "the corporate and industrial world" but the addition of a person gives it a human touch.
Great catch (again) and those reflections are just jaw-dropping!
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wonderful. the person does a great job on improving your picture
impressing composition, too...
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that's beatiful shot.
great compostion.
I love your words!
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Very sterile, creates a great atmosphere. Your descriptions are always very insightful, do you want to write my honours thesis for me?
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You know, it sounds like so much fun, but I just don't think I can't fit if into my schedule
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Okay well for the record, it's not fun. And I'm sure, somewhere, you can fit it into your schedule, pretty please?
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The flow of this picture and the concept work very well together. 
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thats only a brief piece of the theory of special relativity,
yet the photo seems to convey that in a sense few fotos can
airports always make good photos, huh?
anyways, amazing shot
definately, fav-worthy--
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very good picture. might i just ask where you took this photograph? it seems to me to look exactly like the denver international airport, just curious.
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aha i knew it, ive been threw that airport more times than i can count, the architechture there is really amazing.
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The use of tones and light is brilliant, and I love how the light bounces off of everything, great reflections, depth and lines. This has quite the mood to it.
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hehe great caption... and lovely shot man... I am digging those colors. Really looking forward to the next one bud.
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hehe great caption... and lovely shot man... I am digging those colors. Really looking forward to the next one bud.
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Is it just me, or is it leaning slightly to the right? Stunning capture none-the-less.
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Yeah something like that....
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That totally looks like the airport at colorado.
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Awesome shot welder...I love the reflections, they give this shot a silky smooth almost abstract, dream-like feel. Not sure what camera you shot this on but I would have shot this with some sort of burst to get multiple shots with the figure in different positions, he just doesn't look very natural as he is in this one. Really great!
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great light and reflection
i love the symmetry of this all and the separation with the subject
very nice
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nice tones and good dominant shapes and lines..
what is this place?
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Denver International Airport.
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it's so cool...nice style...I could definetly have a photo shoot there
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beautiful picture. the greens and the blues work seemlessly together and the subject's presence ties it all together well. great photo.
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excellent.
i like the colors and the subject also.
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well... The modern theory is an extension of the simpler Galilean or Newtonian concept of relativity, which holds that the laws of mechanics are the same in one system as in another system in uniform motion relative to it. Thus, it is impossible to detect the motion of a system by measurements made within the system, and such motion can be observed only in relation to other systems in uniform motion. The older concept of relativity assumes that space and time are correctly measured separately and regards them as absolute and independent realities. The system of relativity and mechanics of Galileo and Newton is perfectly self-consistent, but the addition of Maxwell's theory of electricity and magnetism to the system leads to fundamental theoretical difficulties related to the problem of absolute motion.
Einstein expanded the special theory of relativity into a general theory (completed c.1916) that applies to systems in nonuniform (accelerated) motion as well as to systems in uniform motion. The general theory is principally concerned with the large-scale effects of gravitation and therefore is an essential ingredient in theories of the universe as a whole, or cosmology. The theory recognizes the equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass. It asserts that material bodies produce curvatures in space-time that form a gravitational field and that the path of a body in the field is determined by this curvature. The geometry of a given region of space and the motion in the field can be predicted from the equations of the general theory.
This is absolutely astonishing material, just mind-blowing! BUT!!
I believe I already confused myself with this theory about a year ago when I did my work called βTwo Waysβ. I know you have seen it, because you made a comment on it, perhaps this current work of yours is related to my past work that somehow imprinted in your long term memory and was a motivating factor during the making of this current work.
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Perhaps you got that snipet from [link] ? It's a decent article, but maybe makes it sound more complicated than it has to be for the lay person. I'd say the important part to understand though is that relativity exists because of the necessity for an absolute speed (i.e. the speed of light). Nothing can move faster than the speed of light, and the speed of light itself is always constant. No matter what the particular speeds of various individuals may be, each will always measure light moving at 299,792 km/s. This is why all measurements are relative.
I remember your piece, but honestly I have to say that I've been trying to infuse the concept of relativity into art ever since I got my degree in astrophysics five years ago. I've always found it has wonderful potential for metaphor, after all
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Perhaps... perhaps, I got the info from a different source that had classic and special theories included, but the link you gave must have been copied from the one I was looking over . But anyway...
This is very interesting information and truly makes your mind wonder of how much is not really known but just in theory.
This takes me back to your respond. yea I agree that relativity exists because of presence of speed of light and that nothing(we know of) moves faster, but I DO NOT agree that time is the same, if you have a degree in astrophysics, you must know a theory that states that time has different speed depending on the point in space. I believe it has been said that time runs slower around black hole and stops completely at the point of entrance, therefore the light does not travel there any longer(I believe that's why the black hole is called Black hole, because it does not have light in it) therefore the theory of Relativity does not always apply...
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Actually the theory of relativity very much applies in the case of black holes. The only place it will not apply is at the black hole's singularity...and that is because a singularity by definition is a point where no laws of physics apply. The reason a black hole is "black" isn't because it doesn't have light in it, but rather that its gravitational pull is strong enough to keep any light inside of its event horizon from escaping. Light can exist inside the event horizon, and it still moves at the speed of light same as anywhere else, we just can't see it. (The event horizon shouldn't be confused with the singularity, as it is a set distance which surrounds the singularity.)
Time is never the same in an absolute sense, rather it is relative. This means that the passage of time is always different to observers in different frames of reference. To use the black hole example: time "runs slower" around a black hole if you are observing it from far away. If you were watching me fall into a black hole, you would see me slow down as I approached it, until I would appear to be frozen in time, not aging and never actually reaching the black hole. But from my perspective, time would not slow down at all. If I was approaching the black hole, I would see myself accelerating toward it very quickly.
As another example, let's say I take off in a spaceship and accelerate to almost the speed of light. You stay on the earth. Time passes "normally" to each of us within our own reference frame. But from my point of view, time is passing faster for you, and from your point of view, time is passing slower for me.
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Well you clearly have better understanding of it then me. I think I like philosophy more because there I am not bounded by any laws or theories... Hehe⦠speaking of unrealism. Do you know who John Titor is?
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βAs another example, let's say I take off in a spaceship and accelerate to almost the speed of light. You stay on the earth. Time passes "normally" to each of us within our own reference frame. But from my point of view, time is passing faster for you, and from your point of view, time is passing slower for me."
Wouldnβt this technically be called βtime travel to the futureβ! By the way... its somewhat related to John Titor mentioned earlier...
p.s. probably better if we carry on this conversation on the user page since itβs no longer related to the artwork.
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Are you sure you guys have the correct website?
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Welder, that quote...
Is it Buddy Holly?
Just be, just do.
Do be do be do?
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Hmm...never heard that song....
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Maybe it was Frank Sinatra, then!
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amazing. I'd do anything to see some architecture like this IRL... :sigh: perhaps one day I will,
until then I'll just sit here and 
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i really like the metallic futuristic mood you gave to this work. and the person (although a bit too sharpened imo) adds feelings to a cold scene. the description fits perfectly the overall mood and btw the concept
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your concept is beautifully tied in with your work. i love the way that you manage to lace in a tone of surreality to all your work. very beautiful
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Where is this, it looks like the metro at Hartsfield Atlanta?
And if that is the case, I have to 
Anyway, I like the metallic look you gave it, the symmetry is great and the comment sooooo fits the clocks.
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Actually no, it's Denver International.
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I think it's been around a few years, though this was my first time going through it. Those I suppose as airports go, it's new (relatively speaking 
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