ICANT in his OP essentially stated that he wanted to discuss existence. In particular his understanding that The Bible declares existence is responsible for bringing into existence all that exists.(!)
This naturally led to some unproductive discussion about the meaning of existence, which caused ICANT to reframe the question in message 105:
1. Has the universe existed eternally?
OR
2. Did the universe begin to exist?
3. If the universe began to exist, can you present a mechanism whereby that process would take place?
This led to some further debate about time and whether this could be used to measure existence, and, subsequently, the fact that time can pass at different rates in different reference frames. Which is how we ended up discussing the Twins Paradox, The MM experiment and ICANT’s thought experiment with his magical bending light beam.
Throughout the discussion we hit numerous brick walls including ICANT’s difficulties understanding basic terms used in physics including, but not limited to:
Time (versus duration)
Infinite
Speed, velocity and acceleration
Dilation
Stationary (versus at rest)
Reference frames
These communication difficulties essentially rendered all hope of progress futile, although it did provide some enjoyment, and in my case education, to the lurkers present.
I suggest that ICANT limit future forays in to the world of physics to the understanding of some of the simple terms mentioned above before moving on to some of the more complex subjects found in Classical Mechanics.
Edited by Boof, : Changed formatting to improve readability
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