From: george knysh
Message: 12275
Date: 2002-02-04
> Before you start your search for linguistic*****GK: Always on the lookout for Einsteinian
> Einsteins, let me warn you that Einsteinian physics
> offers fewer simple answers to simple questions. In
> Newton's world there was an absolute space-time
> frame for the universe, so it always made sense to
> demand: "Did A occur earlier than B?". In Einstein's
> world you'd better come to terms with the
> realisation that for some pairs of events there is
> no yes-or-no answer. A is earlier than B in some
> frames of reference and later than B in others. This
> doesn't mean that we know less than in Newton's
> days. We merely have fewer illusions ;-)
>
> Piotr