Einstein tried, I'm not sure I have the articulation skills needed, but briefly; as you accelerate, time slows down for you, but every one else left behind ages at normal rate. You also shrink in the direction of your motion (Fitzgerald contraction). This time dilation effect has been noted on subatomic particles and measured by atomic clocks in flight. In my thought experiment I traveled at 695000000 miles per second. To an outside observer, I traveled at 99.99+% SOL. While in flight, just to kill some time, if I had measured the SOL in my little Prometheous hot rod, regardless of whether I measured a ray of light going from front to back, back to front or a variation on side to side, I would have always measured SOL as 186000 MPS. The weirdest part of this for me is knowing SOL is 186000 MPS and that I myself with my own calendar and abacus would have calculated my trip velocity at 3200c, and that I accept relativity as an accurate desciption of universe. It's just tough wrapping noodle around all of this. <br /><br /><br /><br />Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine.<br />-some one a whole lot smarter than me <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>