<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Spike,</span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">>>…</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">That is not my understanding of time dilation, or perhaps I misunderstand what you're saying. My clock on board the ship appears to me to work normally. It is only relative
to some other clock perhaps back on earth it seems to slow down</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">…Go</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">rdon</span><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv0722168139"><div class="yiv0722168139WordSection1"><div><div class="yiv0722168139MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color:#1F497D;"></span></div><div class="yiv0722168139MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv0722168139MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">>No. The clocks on earth and aboard the ship both appear normal from the point of view of the person right there with them. The clocks aboard the ship appears to be slow from the point of view of earth, but the clock on earth appears to be going slow from the point of view of the spaceship. From each point of view, both observers see the other guy’s clock as moving slow.< </span></div><div class="yiv0722168139MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div class="yiv0722168139MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;
background-color: transparent;">How is that different from I just wrote above?</span></div><div class="yiv0722168139MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div class="yiv0722168139MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; background-color: transparent;">Gordon </span><br></div></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="yiv0722168139MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv0722168139MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-size: 16px;
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