{"id":12348,"date":"2012-09-11T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12348"},"modified":"2012-09-11T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T08:00:13","slug":"when-it-absolutely-has-to-be-there-in-ten-minutes-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12348","title":{"rendered":"When It Absolutely Has to Be There in Ten Minutes or Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2012\/09\/10\/relativity-ten-minutes-to-alpha-centauri\/\">Relativity: Ten minutes to Alpha Centauri?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is almost frightening how well special relativity works, and how internally consistent it is.  The simple arguments presented here don\u2019t do full justice to how smoothly the concepts of space and time are intertwined in the theory, and how much sense this link makes on close inspection.  We can note, however, that the constancy of the speed of light is well-established experimentally (starting with the aforementioned Michelson-Morley experiment), and in fact time dilation has been confirmed experimentally almost countless times!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relativity: Ten minutes to Alpha Centauri? It is almost frightening how well special relativity works, and how internally consistent it is. The simple arguments presented here don\u2019t do full justice to how smoothly the concepts of space and time are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12348\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}