Name: Anonymous 2008-08-01 13:08
copypasta, maybe i find answers here.
when i was a kid, i was reading carl sagans "cosmos". one thing is bothering me since, and i would appreciate if some1 xplains here what i concluded wrong.
first fact: universe is spreading. in our point of view, we're at center, cause everything is going away from us. but it's cause outer regions are moving faster, inner slower, so in every point of view you can see everything is moving away. so we can't say where is center of universe. ok.
2nd fact: scientist wanted to proove theory of relativity by making atomic clock and putting it into voyager 1. so they expected time shifting as ship speed was raising. they did get time difference readings, but results were totally different than things they calculated. ok.
i am wandering: wtf, i dunno if no1 was tryin to calculate time shifts changes after voyager turned around (jupiter? saturn? don't remember) and put 2 vectors together, and conclude how much this ship went SLOWER or FASTER than earth in that moment, and calculate which way center of universe is?
when i was a kid, i was reading carl sagans "cosmos". one thing is bothering me since, and i would appreciate if some1 xplains here what i concluded wrong.
first fact: universe is spreading. in our point of view, we're at center, cause everything is going away from us. but it's cause outer regions are moving faster, inner slower, so in every point of view you can see everything is moving away. so we can't say where is center of universe. ok.
2nd fact: scientist wanted to proove theory of relativity by making atomic clock and putting it into voyager 1. so they expected time shifting as ship speed was raising. they did get time difference readings, but results were totally different than things they calculated. ok.
i am wandering: wtf, i dunno if no1 was tryin to calculate time shifts changes after voyager turned around (jupiter? saturn? don't remember) and put 2 vectors together, and conclude how much this ship went SLOWER or FASTER than earth in that moment, and calculate which way center of universe is?